User Manual
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Source-Measure Concepts
• Compliance limit — Discusses compliance limit including real and range
compliances, maximum compliance values, and how to determine compli
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ance limit.
• Overheating protection — Provides information on preventing SourceMe-
ter overheating, including power equations.
• Source-delay-measure cycle — Describes the various phases of the
source-delay-measure cycle as well as sweep waveforms.
• Operating boundaries — Covers voltage and current operating bound-
aries for source and sink operation, I-source and V-source, and source-
measure modes.
• Basic circuit configurations — Covers basic circuit configurations for
source I, source V, and measure only operating modes.
• Guard — Covers cable guard, ohms guard, and guard sense.
• Data flow — Describes measurement readings, math, rel, and limits opera-
tion, and how data is stored in the buffer.