
6 Device PowerSupply High Current Power Supply (HCDPS)
178 System Reference, January 2001
Current and Voltage Measurement
As with the General Purpose and High Voltage DPS, the
High Current DPS can be triggered with a +5V signal (see
“Trigger Circuit” on page 175) to cause it to commence
with measurements of voltages and/or currents.
As the HCDPS only has only one range, it measures all
currents in the high current range.
For measurements of small currents, the HCDPS can be
switched to tristate to allow more accurate measurements
to be made using an SPMU or GPDPS, connected in
parallel (measurements using the GPDPS are described in
the section, “Current and Voltage Measurements
with DPS” on page 164).
A current monitor output is fed to the DUT Board by one
of the eight signal pogo pins. The output is 3V/100A.
Source impedance of this output is 10k Ohm. The refer-
ence for this output is ground sense (sense -).
Voltage measurements can also be carried out using the
HCDPS.
Firmware Commands for the HCDPS
For the High Current DPS there are two new firmware
commands as follows:
1. PSOP and PSOP?
Description:
The PSOP (Power Supply Overvoltage Protection)
command specifies the overvoltage levels, at which a
High Current DPS channel disconnects. Overvoltage
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