User`s guide

2- 20 Agilent B2900 User’s Guide, Edition 2
Introduction
Specifications
• Current output settling time:
Time required to reach within 0.1 % (0.3 % for 3 A range) of final value at short
condition. Step is +10 % to +90 % range.
10 nA and 100 nA ranges: < 10 ms
1 A range: < 500 s
10 A and 100 A ranges: < 250 s
1 mA to 3 A ranges: < 80 s
• Noise 10 Hz to 20 MHz (V source): 3 mVrms, 20 V range
• V source overshoot:
< (0.1 % + 10 mV) Step is +10 % to +90 % range, resistive load.
• I source overshoot:
< 0.1 % (0.3 % for 3 A range) Step is +10 % to +90 % range, resistive load.
• Voltage source range change overshoot:
 250 mV. 100 k load, 20 MHz bandwidth
• Current source range change overshoot:
 250 mV/R load, 20 MHz bandwidth
Pulse Source Supplemental Characteristics
• Minimum programmable pulse width: 50 s
• Pulse width programming resolution: 1 s
• Pulse width definition:
The time from 10 % leading to 90 % trailing edge as follows.
• Maximum duty cycle and pulse width: See Table 2-12.
• Minimum pulse width at the given voltage, current, and settling conditions: See
Table 2-13.
90 %
10 %
Pulse peak
Pulse width
Pulse base