Keithley 2887 4200-SCS LAN Lab WP free download

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WHITE PA P E R A Local Area Network Laboratory Based on the Keithley 4200-SCS for Engineering Education in Microelectronics Avraham Chelly, Ph.D. Introduction The microelectronics laboratory has been an integral part of the modern curriculum in engineering education for years so that undergraduate students can apply what they've learned of their device physics and VLSI courses. In this way, they can perform measurements on "home-made" devices and/ or advanced devices imported from the industry in the framework of an end-year project. The continuous progress in microelectronics technology has largely replaced the classic curve-tracer with a modern PC-controllable parameter analyzer, allowing students to make more precise and convenient measurements. However, due to the relative high cost of this type of equipment, equipping a teaching lab with many such measurement units may be unaffordable. As a result, during the last decade, the concept of a remote laboratory through the Internet has been pioneered at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute [1, 2] (AIM-Lab) in collaboration with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology [3] (Lab-On-Web) and developed at MIT [1, 4] (Web Lab) to allow a large numbers of users to share a single piece of advanced equipment from their home or any other location in the world. The limits of this approach are, of course, due to the elimination of the "hands-on" experiments in a lab environment: lack of flexibility (changing the device, changing the instruments, degree of programming flexibility, etc.), but also lack of immediate feedback from the system itself (precision of the manual probe setup, observation of instruments and devices, human environment, etc.), and, last but not least, Keithley Instruments, Inc. 28775 Aurora Road Cleveland, Ohio 44139 (440) 248-0400 Fax: (440) 248-6168 www.keithley.com A G r e A t e r M e A s u r e o f C o n f i d e n C e the lack of good laboratory practices (note-taking, discipline, troubleshooting, personal initiative, and instructor guidance, etc.).