Mask limit testing

This feature is specially designed for production and debugging

environments. Capture a signal from a known working system, and

PicoScope will draw a mask around it with your specified tolerance.

Connect the system under test, and PicoScope will highlight any parts

of the waveform that fall outside the mask area. The highlighted details

persist on the display, allowing the scope to catch intermittent glitches

while you work on something else. The measurements window counts

the number of failures, and can display other measurements and statistics

at the same time.

The numerical and graphical mask editors can be used separately or in

combination, allowing you to enter accurate mask specifications and

modify existing masks. You can import and export masks as files.

High-end features as standard

Buying a scope from some companies is a bit like buying a car. By the

time you have added all the optional extras you need, the price has gone

up considerably. With the PicoScope 2000 Series, high-end features such

as resolution enhancement, mask limit testing, serial decoding, advanced

triggering, automatic measurements, math channels and XY mode are all

included in the price.

To protect your investment, both the PC software and firmware inside the

unit can be updated. We have a long history of providing new features for

free through software downloads. Other companies make vague promises

about future enhancements but we deliver on our promises year after

year. Users of our products reward us by becoming lifelong customers,

frequently recommending us to their colleagues.

High signal integrity

Most oscilloscopes are built down to a price; ours are built up to a

specification.

Careful front-end design and shielding reduces noise, crosstalk and

harmonic distortion. Our 20 years of oscilloscope design experience can

be seen in improved pulse response and bandwidth flatness.

We are proud of the dynamic performance of our products and publish

these specifications in detail. The result is simple: when you probe a circuit,

you can trust in the waveform you see on the screen.

Advanced display modes

See old and new data superimposed, with new data in a brighter color

or shade. This makes it easy to see glitches and dropouts and to estimate

their relative frequency. Choose between analog persistence and digital

color, or create a custom display mode.

The design of the PicoScope software ensures that maximum display area

is available for waveform viewing. Even with a laptop you have a much

bigger viewing area and higher resolution than a typical benchtop scope.

Serial decoding

The PicoScope 2000 Series includes serial decoding capability as standard.

Protocols currently included are I²C, SPI, RS232/UART and CAN bus.

Expect this list to grow as we release free software updates.

PicoScope displays the decoded data in the format of your choice: “in

view”, “in window”, or both at once. The “in view” format shows the

decoded data beneath the waveform on a common time axis, with error

frames marked in red. You can zoom in on these frames to look for noise

or distortion on the waveform.

“In window” format shows a list of the decoded frames, including the data

and all flags and identifiers. You can set up filtering conditions to display

only the frames you are interested in, search for frames with specified

properties, or define a start pattern that the program will wait for before

listing the data.

You can also create a spreadsheet to decode the hexadecimal data into

arbitrary text strings.

High-speed data acquisition and digitizing

The drivers and software development kit supplied allow you to write

your own software or interface to popular third-party software packages

such as LabVIEW.

The driver supports data streaming, a mode that captures gap-free

continuous data through the USB port directly to the PC’s RAM or hard

disk at a rate of 1 MS/s or more, so that you are not limited by the size of

the device’s buffer memory. Maximum speed is PC-dependent.

PicoScope 2206 front-end screening

PicoScope 2000 Series Oscilloscopes