Section 4: Sourcing and measuring
2470 High Voltage SourceMeter Instrument Reference Manual
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2470-901-01 Rev. A /
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2019
Source voltage, measure current, and read ohms
If you want to make resistance readings by sourcing voltage and measuring current, you can use this
method.
The examples below use a 100
kΩ device under test. The code:
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Makes five readings by sourcing 5 V
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Measures current with autorange enabled
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Sets the measure units to ohms
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Uses offset compensation
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Retrieves the source and measure values
Even though the measurement units are in ohms, the measurement range is 10 µA.
Using SCPI:
Send the following code:
*RST
SENSe:FUNCtion "CURR"
SENSe:CURRent:RANGe:AUTO ON
SENSe:CURRent:UNIT OHM
SENSe:CURRent:OCOM ON
SOURce:FUNCtion VOLT
SOURce:VOLT 5
SOURce:VOLT:ILIM 0.01
SENSe:COUNT 5
OUTPut ON
TRACe:TRIGger "defbuffer1"
TRACe:DATA? 1, 5, "defbuffer1", SOUR, READ
OUTPut OFF
The front-panel display will look similar to the following example.
Figure 63: Resistance measurement using SVMI and reading ohms