4200A-SCS Parameter Analyzer

Keithley User Library Tool (KULT)

(Requires optional 4200-COMPILER)

The Keithley User Library Tool supports creating and integrating C-language subroutine libraries with the test environment. User library modules

are accessed in Clarius through User Test Modules. Factory supplied libraries provide up and running capability for supported instruments.

Users can edit and compile subroutines, then integrate libraries of subroutines with Clarius, allowing the 4200A-SCS to control an entire test

rack from a single user interface.

System Configuration and Diagnostics (KCon)

The Keithley Configuration Utility (KCon) simplifies programming and maintaining a fully integrated test station. KCon provides a single interface for

configuring external instruments, switch matrices, and analytical probers, and for executing system diagnostics.

External Instrument Configuration KCon allows lab managers to integrate external instruments with the 4200A-SCS and a supported switch

matrix. After the user configures the GPIB addresses for supported instruments, Keithley-supplied

libraries will function and test modules can be transferred between 4200A-SCS systems without any user

modification. In addition to the standard supported instruments, the General Purpose Instrument allows

users to develop subroutines and control switches for a generic two-terminal or four-terminal instrument.

For the widest possible system extensibility, users can develop their own test libraries for general purpose

instruments.

Switch Matrix Configuration

Users define the connection of 4200A-SCS instruments and external instruments to device under

test (DUT) pins through a supported switch matrix configuration. (See Switch Matrix Support and

Configurations.) Once connections are defined, users need only enter the instrument terminal name and

pin number to establish connections. The 4200A-SCS applications and standard user libraries manage the

routing of test signals between instrument terminals and DUT pins. The user doesn’t need to remember

and program row and column closures. Test modules can transfer between 4200A-SCS systems without

re-entering connection information.

4200A-SCS Instrument Diagnostics

Users can confirm system integrity of SMUs, C-V measurement unit, pulse generator, oscilloscopes,

and remote preamplifiers by running a system self-test. For more complex problems, the system’s

configuration analysis tool can generate reports that assist the Technical Support staff of Keithley in

diagnosing problems.

Keithley External Control Interface (KXCI)

With KXCI, you can use an external computer to control the SMUs and CVU modules in the 4200A-SCS directly. KXCI also provides you with

indirect control of the Ultra-fast I-V Pulse Measure Unit, using UTMs via either the built-in GPIB or Ethernet. For the SMUs, the KXCI command

set includes an HP 4145 compatibility mode, allowing many programs already developed for the HP4145 to use the 4200A-SCS instead.