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MAX
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(Measurement and Automation Explorer
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Legal Notice.
This section is neither a comprehensive nor a partial User’s guide to Measurement and
Automation Explorer or any other National Instruments (hereafter NI) products. The scope of this
section is to provide the Users with the information necessary to install, test and maintain the
accuracy level of the measurement system. Accordingly, this section is exclusively intended for Ossila
Multiplexer Measurement Unit users and any other use is explicitly forbidden.
Please refer to National Instruments Measurement and Automation Explorer Help for
comprehensive documentation and User guide.
MAX is an NI product covered by one or more of the following Patents: U.S. Patent No(s) 6,690,390;
7,130,760; 7,134,109; 7,152,116.
Introduction
MAX (Measurement and Automation Explorer) is the National Instruments application that provides
direct access to NI hardware. According to NI specifications
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, MAX can be used to
Configure your National Instruments hardware and software
Back up or replicate configuration data
Create and edit channels, tasks, interfaces, scales, and virtual instruments
Execute system diagnostics
View devices and instruments connected to your system
Update your National Instruments software
In the following, we refer to the Source Measurement Units (SMU) dedicated to source and measure
the gate and drain voltage/current of transistor as GATE and DRAIN, respectively. Gate and drain
(lower-case letter) refers to the transistor gate and drain, respectively.
Configure and Test National Instrument NI 6501B OEM Board
Make sure that all the connections are well-connected, all the power cords are plugged in an. Open
NI MAX;
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On the left side MAX subpanel, click on
My
System.
NI USB-6501 Settings
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Click on
Device and Interface
: a list of devices installed or simulated on the computer will
appear, see figure 14.
If the USB cable is properly connected to both PC and the Multiplexer Measurement Unit,
the NI USB-6501 icon is green. The icon of a device installed but not currently present or
properly connected is grey with a superimposed red cross;
When first installed, MAX assigns a standard alias name to MAX-compatible hardware. For
NI USB-6501, this is “Devn”, where n is an integer indicating the number of device
currently installed on the computer.
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