multiple-pulse capability enabled #86
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The capability to emit multiple pulses per sequence step was added to the driver. For this, the sweep mode was misused by setting start and stop voltage/current to the same value. As this also works for a single pulse as well as the DC mode, the initialization was modified to have the B290xB SMU run in the sweep mode all the time, even if the pulse count in the GUI is set to 1 or if the SMU is used for DC output. No drawbacks were observed in practical use other than that the symbol on the display of the SMU shows a sweep rather than a DC or pulse graphic.
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Thanks for the further contribution. I have not much experience to say whether the Sweep is also a good choice for the single-spot DC measurement. One option would be to use FIX for the normal DC measurement and SWE for the pulsed measurments to allow for multiple pulses.
- separate SCPI commands are now used for DC and PULSE measurements as suggested previously - NPLC settings moved to a dictonary to get rid of the mutiple if-statements in the configuration section - removed unused and commented-out variable + code for a measurement deplay as implementing it would make things even more complicated for most application cases than necessary (cherry picked from commit 1e7c8a2) # Conflicts: # src/SMU-Agilent_B29xx/main.py
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I saw that you pushed the latest changes in the "main" branch. As the first commit was in "patch-1" branch, I cherry-picked your latest commit and moved it to "patch-1" so that this pull request remains valid and we can proceed here with the merge.
I only did a bit cleanup of the comments. Most relevant change ist that I renamed speed type "Standard (1)" to "Medium (1") as this matches the wording of all other drivers and
"Very Slow" -> "Very slow".
If you are fine with the changes, we can proceed with the merge.
…-check (if self.pulse) removed. commented print() removed
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I have moved the pulse triggering to 'measure' as this phase is the one where a measurement should be initiated. If this does not work or makes problems later, we can resolve them in a new pull request. Sometimes some adaptions is needed until all drivers are perfectly harmonized.
The capability to emit multiple pulses per sequence step was added to the driver. For this, the sweep mode was misused by setting start and stop voltage/current to the same value.
As this also works for a single pulse as well as the DC mode, the initialization was modified to have the B290xB SMU run in the sweep mode all the time, even if the pulse count in the GUI is set to 1 or if the SMU is used for DC output. No drawbacks were observed in practical use other than that the symbol on the display of the SMU shows a sweep rather than a DC or pulse graphic.