PicoScope® 5000D Series oscilloscopes

Mask limit testing allows you to compare

live signals against known good signals,

and is designed for production and

debugging environments. Simply capture

a known good signal, generate a mask

around it and then use the alarms

to automatically save any waveform

(complete with a time stamp) that violates

the mask. PicoScope 6 will capture any

intermittent glitches and show a failure

count in the Measurements window (which

you can still use for other measurements).

You can also set the waveform buffer

navigator to show only mask fails,

enabling you to find any glitches quickly.

Mask files are easy to edit (numerically

or graphically), import and export, and

you can simultaneously run mask limit

tests on multiple channels and in multiple

viewports.

With PicoScope 6 you can perform a

variety of mathematical calculations

on your input signals and reference

waveforms. Select simple functions

such as addition and inversion, or open

the equation editor to create complex

functions involving filters (lowpass,

highpass, bandpass and bandstop filters),

trigonometry, exponentials, logarithms,

statistics, integrals and derivatives.

Display up to eight real or calculated

channels in each scope view. If you run

out of space, just open another scope view

and add more. You can also use math

channels to reveal new details in complex

signals, for example graphing the changing

duty cycle or frequency of your signal over

time.

The custom probes feature allows you to

correct for gain, attenuation, offsets and

nonlinearities in probes, transducers and

other sensors, and to measure quantities

other than voltages (such as current,

power or temperature). Definitions for

standard Pico-supplied probes are built

in, but you can also create your own using

linear scaling or even an interpolated data

table, and save them for later use.

You can program PicoScope 6 to execute actions when certain events occur.

The events that can trigger an alarm include mask limit fails, trigger events and buffers

full.

PicoScope 6 actions include saving a file, playing a sound, executing a program and

triggering the arbitrary waveform generator.

Math channels and filters

Custom probes

Alarms

Mask limit testing