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Overview............................................................................................. 8-2

Compliance limit ................................................................................ 8-2

Maximum compliance.................................................................... 8-2

Compliance principles ................................................................... 8-3

Sweep waveforms.............................................................................. 8-3

Staircase sweeps........................................................................... 8-3

Pulse sweeps ................................................................................ 8-4

Overheating protection ..................................................................... 8-4

Power equations to avoid overheating .......................................... 8-4

Operating boundaries ....................................................................... 8-7

Source or sink ............................................................................... 8-7

Continuous power operating boundaries....................................... 8-8

I-Source operating boundaries ...................................................... 8-9

V-Source operating boundaries..................................................... 8-13

Source I measure I, source V measure V ..................................... 8-16

Basic circuit configurations ............................................................. 8-16

Source I ......................................................................................... 8-16

Source V........................................................................................ 8-17

Measure only (V or I)..................................................................... 8-17

Contact check................................................................................ 8-18

Guard .................................................................................................. 8-19

Guard overview ............................................................................. 8-19

Guard connections ........................................................................ 8-20

Pulse concepts................................................................................... 8-22

Pulse period .................................................................................. 8-22

Pulse rise and fall times ................................................................ 8-22

Pulse duty cycle ............................................................................ 8-23

Settling time considerations............................................................. 8-23

Measurement Settling Time Considerations.................................. 8-23

Reduction in gain-bandwidth ......................................................... 8-24

Section 8

Source-Measure Concepts

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