User`s guide

Agilent B2900 User’s Guide, Edition 2 5- 19

Front Panel Operations

Controlling the Measurement Function

This section describes how to control the measurement function of Agilent B2900.

• “Enabling the Resistance Measurement”

• “Setting the Measurement Mode”

• “Performing Spot Measurement”

• “Stopping Measurement”

• “Setting the Measurement Speed”

• “Setting the Measurement Range”

• “Performing Sweep Measurement”

• “Setting the Measurement Trigger Parameters”

• “Setting the Measurement Wait Time”

• “Setting the Measurement Auto Range Operation”

• “Enabling or Disabling the Resistance Compensation”

Enabling the Resistance Measurement

1. Press the View key to display the Single view. If the Range parameters are not

displayed, press the Hide XXXX assist key.

2. Move the field pointer to the Measure Ohms (resistance measurement range)

field. If this field is set to OFF, the resistance measurement is disabled.

3. Press the rotary knob to change the pointer status to EDIT.

4. Press the AUTO, FIXED, or V/I assist key to set the resistance measurement

operation. The pointer status is changed to MOVE.

For details on the resistance measurement operation, see “Range parameters” on

page 4-11.

To set the measurement range continuously, see “Setting the Measurement

Range” on page 5-21.