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Each SMU panel contains an on/off toggle button, a legend line indicating the line colour for the device
data, checkboxes for toggling whether SMU data are displayed in the plots, and controls for Set Voltage
and Current Range as described in
Section 9.3
. Vsense panels contain an on/off toggle, a legend line, and a
checkbox for toggling Vsense data display.
Below the device control panels are 3 plot control buttons. From left to right these are: pause/resume
plotting, save data, clear plots.
(I) Pause/Resume Plotting
•
Pauses or resumes updating the plots with new data.
I. Plotting will automatically pause if all channels are switched off, and resume when a device is
switched on.
(II) Save Data
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Data in the plots can be saved by clicking the green save button.
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This opens a dialog box to navigate to the desired save directory and name the file.
I. The desired file type (comma separated value (.csv) or text (.txt)) can be selected using the drop-
down box to the right of the file name field.
(III) Clear Plots
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The plots can be cleared by clicking red clear button.
(IV) Graph Display Controls
By default, the plots will automatically scale the axes of the graph to display all the data within it. The view can
be controlled manually using the following mouse controls:
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Left/Middle click and drag – pan the axes.
•
Right click and drag – scale the axes.
•
Scroll wheel – scale the axes.
A specific axis can be controlled by using these controls on the axis labels. The axes can be reset by clicking
the ‘A’ button in the bottom-left of the plot, as shown in
Figure 9.8
(note, this button will only appear whilst
the mouse cursor is over the plots).
