Andrea Clary

Hi Gibbs,

First configure a digital line to give a trigger out when it receives the NOTIFY stimulus.
From the trigger blocks, you can add an entry to use the Notify event to cause the digital IO trigger.

​​​​​​​--setup digital output to strobe when NOTIFY2 event occurs
digio.line[1].mode = digio.MODE_TRIGGER_OUT
trigger.digout[1].pulsewidth = 10e-6
trigger.digout[1].stimulus   = trigger.EVENT_NOTIFY2

trigger.model.setblock(blockNumber, trigger.BLOCK_NOTIFY, trigger.EVENT_NOTIFY2)  -- strobe the digital output

 

The trigger lines in the trigger link are 5V, TTL digital lines.

The digital lines are agnostic about what they interface with, so long as they are TTL.

The same steps are required for the 2182A regardless of who’s current source is used.

Does the TDK have digital IO?

For basic communication over LAN, you can use raw sockets or you could obtain a VISA layer from Tek or NI, etc.

The IVI driver for 3706A contains the NI VISA runtime and leverages that for the communication.
There are some .NET examples distributed with the IVI driver.
 

Can you tell us which specific DMM model this is?

Your 37 ohm motor winding is also a big inductor.  Do you have estimate for the L value?
The ohms function is trying to apply a current and measure the V.
When the current is applied, the inductor will cause:  V = L * dI/dt
If this causes max V for the ohms range, I can imagine poor outcomes.

If you have DMM6500, try the diode test function with different current levels.  Any of those stable with your coil?

 

Check your firmware level against what is available for it (1.7.14 now).

I wonder what commands are in use.  If doing a fast trigger model operation, I can envision that front panel processing might slow down.
How do you resolve the freezing?

The DMM6500 can receive ASCII commands on the LAN.  The PLC needs a raw socket connection on port 5025.

Check out the User Manual on Trigger Link.
Also section on stepping and scanning for an idea of how to handshake with external current source.

When running this Lua code on the 2636B, the only file system available is the USB drive on front panel.  You need to insert a FAT32 formatted USB drive into the port.

I think instead you are wanting to put the information to the HDD of the computer, right?

In your document, it looks like two different tests were defined.
The 2604B contains two SMU.  You just need some sweeps.

Take a look at KickStart IVC if you don’t want to write code.
Or get our free Test Script Builder or TSP Toolkit.
There are samples with TSB.
Test Script Builder
With these you can execute sweeps and copy/paste data to Excel.
 

An update:  with version 1.13 of Clarius software for the 4200A-SCS, there are now KXCI commands for error retrieval and error clear.

Visit tek.com and download and apply updated Clarius for 4200A-SCS.

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