An integrated PC- based system for characterising electronic components

Abstract

The present work consists on the implementation of an integrated system controlled by an IBM compatible PC through an HPIB card. The system gathers a set of HP model high quality measuring devices, the measurements of a large set of electrical parameters can hence be achieved automatically. In addition, a set of MATLAB routines have been implemented to extract SPICE model parameters of a large set of passive and active electronic components. This allows more accurate results to be obtained from simulation of electrical circuits. Different methods of parameters extraction from measurement data have been tested, and satisfactory results are obtained