Metrics Win4145

Win4145 Interactive Control Software

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Product Brochure

Metrics Win4145 provides modern capabilities for your HP4145A or HP4145B parameter analyzer. This product provides PC-based control of the instrument which results in data being collected directly to the computer. Data can be further analyzed using the built-in plotting and parameter extraction tools.

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New Features

 

Windows OS Compatibility
• Software has been updated to latest compiler and C++ runtime distribution support for providing future updates in Windows 11 and later operating systems.

Security Updates
• New node-locked licensing for supporting Windows 10 20H2 and later or Windows 11 has been added. This has been necessary due to lack of vendor support for driver updates to the Sentinel USB security key. Legacy keys will be exchanged for the new node-locked license file provided upon request.
(Note: The node-locked license license is tied to the machine that is activated on based on its hardware fingerprint. Limited support for moving licenses to new machines is available by request.

(Deprecated) Sentinel System Driver updated to 7.6.0, support for Windows 10 Credential Guard and Device Guard has been added.

General User Interface Improvements
• Added auto-column width for Data View spreadsheet windows.
• Updated File “Save As” dialogs to display the “Save” button instead of “Open”
• Added License # field to Help menu “About” dialog box to display current license number being read from the USB security key.
• Increased width of GPIB “Communications Log” window and increased length of log file to aid in technical support and troubleshooting communication problems.

Other Improvements / Additions
• Added additional 5 and 6 terminal BJT and MOS devices to ICS setups.
• Added support for long paths and filenames in all areas of the UI.
• Changed selection of File->Import and Export file to browse using Windows FileManager.
• Increased number of data vectors in data view to 100 vectors and 10001 points.
• Data view now only displays actual filled data vectors to support efficient scrolling of long data arrays.
• Enhanced “Sync to Excel” added to Options->Workspace settings to allow auto synchronization of data view to MS Excel worksheet.
• Multiple data views are synced to tabs in Excel workbook.

Instrument Support

 

Semiconductor Parameter Analyzers

VendorModelDescriptionNotes
HP4145ASemiconductor Parameter Analyzer
HP4145BSemiconductor Parameter Analyzer

System Requirements

 

RECOMMENDED SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
2.4 GHz iCore-5 Processor (or equivalent)
4 GB RAM
Windows 11 Professional, 64-bit
500 Mbyte available for product installation, plus additional 50 GB capacity for test data
1 USB-A port(GPIB supported interfaces)
SXGA Monitor (1600 x 1200) minimum resolution


SUPPORTED GPIB INTERFACES
One of the following GPIB cards and the listed software:

PCI
NI GPIB-PCI NI-488.2 Software version 2025 Q1 or later
Keysight 82350 B/C Keysight IO Library Suite version 2025 Build 21.1.209 or later

USB
NI GPIB-USB-HS/HS+ NI-488.2 Software version 2025 Q1 or later
Keysight 82357 B Keysight IO Library Suite version 2025 Build 21.1.209 or later

NOTE: Metrics Technology, Inc. does not provide GPIB hardware or software so please visit the appropriate vendor site for purchase or software driver updates.

Documentation

 

Win4145 4.5 Getting Started Guide

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