As cheap microcontrollers have given us an impressive range of test equipment trinkets to play with, it’s easy to forget some of the old standabys. A curve tracer for example, the relatively simple ...

October 22, 2012. Keithley Instruments Inc. has introduced seven instrumentation, software, and test-fixture configurations for parametric curve-tracing applications for characterizing high-power ...

It’s generally acknowledged that curve tracers, originally introduced in the late 1950s for characterizing vacuum tubes, then later for transistors, are no longer up to the task of characterizing ...

To a lot of us, curve tracing seems to be one of those black magic things that only the true wizards understand. But as [DiodeGoneWild] explains, curve tracing really isn’t all that complicated, and ...

Curve tracers are electronic test devices that are similar to oscilloscopes in many ways. Fundamentally, these instruments operate by varying a parameter, then measuring a separate one to produce data ...

Older folks may recall the famous Tektronix 576 and 577 curve tracers from half a century ago. A few of these have survived the decades and ended up in some lucky engineer’s home/work lab. Wow the ...