PicoScope for power, portability and versatility

These handy, economical oscilloscopes

have all the power you need for your

application, whether it’s design,

research, test, education, service

or repair. They are available with

bandwidths from 10 MHz to 200 MHz.

PicoScope oscilloscopes are small, light

and portable. They easily slip into a

laptop bag and so are ideal for the

engineer on the move. They don’t need an external power supply, so they

are perfect for field use. The connection to your PC means that functions

such as printing, copying and email are always at your fingertips.

The first USB-powered 1 GS/s oscilloscopes!

The series includes the first USB-powered oscilloscopes to offer a 1 GS/s

real-time sampling rate, previously possible only with mains-powered

instruments. Most other USB-powered oscilloscopes are limited to only

100 or 200 MS/s. For repetitive signals, equivalent-time sampling (ETS)

mode boosts the maximum effective sampling rate even higher to 10 GS/s,

allowing exceptionally fine timing resolution.

Digital triggering

Most digital oscilloscopes sold today

still use an analog trigger architecture

based on comparators. This can cause

time and amplitude errors that cannot

always be calibrated out. The use of

comparators often limits the trigger

sensitivity at high bandwidths and can

also create a long trigger re-arm delay.

Since 1991 we have been pioneering the use of fully digital triggering

using the actual digitized data. This reduces trigger errors and allows our

oscilloscopes to trigger on the smallest signals, even at the full bandwidth.

Trigger levels and hysteresis can be set with great precision and resolution.

The reduced re-arm delay provided by digital triggering, together with

segmented memory, allows the capture of events that happen in rapid

sequence. At the fastest timebase, rapid triggering can capture a new

waveform every 2 microseconds until the buffer is full. The mask limit

testing feature (see below) helps to detect waveforms that fail to meet

your specifications.

Advanced triggers

As well as the standard range of triggers found on all oscilloscopes, the

PicoScope 2000 Series offers one of the best selections of advanced

triggers available, including pulse width, windowed and dropout triggers

to help you find your signal quickly.

Custom probe settings

The custom probes feature allows

you to correct for gain, attenuation,

offsets and nonlinearities in special

probes, or to convert to different

units of measurement (such as

current, power or temperature).

You can save definitions to disk for

later use. Definitions for standard

Pico-supplied oscilloscope probes

and current clamps are built in.

Arbitrary waveform and function generator

All units have a built-in function

generator with sine, square,

triangle, DC level and many

more standard waveforms.

As well as level, offset and

frequency controls, more

advanced options allow you

to sweep over a range of

frequencies. Combined with

the spectrum peak hold option,

this creates a powerful tool

for testing amplifier and filter

responses.

The PicoScope 2000 Series scopes also include a full arbitrary waveform

generator. Waveforms can be created or edited using the built-in AWG

editor, imported from oscilloscope traces, or loaded from a spreadsheet.

Spectrum analyzer

With the click of a button,

you can display a spectrum

plot of selected channels. The

spectrum analyzer allows

signals up to the full scope

bandwidth to be viewed in the

frequency domain. A full range

of settings gives you control

over the number of spectrum

bands, window types and

display modes: instantaneous,

average, or peak-hold.

PicoScope allows you to display multiple spectrum views with different

channel selections and zoom factors, and see these alongside time-domain

waveforms of the same data. A comprehensive set of automatic frequency-

domain measurements, including THD, THD+N, SNR, SINAD and IMD,

can be added to the display.

Math channels

The PicoScope 2000 Series

oscilloscopes offer a full

range of math functions for

processing and combining

channels. The functions can

also operate on reference

waveforms.

Use the built-in list for simple

functions such as addition and

inversion, or open the equation

editor and create complex

functions involving trigonometry, exponentials, logarithms, statistics,

integrals and derivatives.

Measurements

You can add any combination of automatic measurements to the

display, chosen from a list of 26 scope and spectrum parameters. Every

measurement includes statistics of minimum, maximum, average, standard

deviation and sample size.

PicoScope 2000 Series Oscilloscopes