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A smarter scope for faster debugging ratio of 1:1,000,000,000). Deep captures can be explored
with the included waveform buffer navigator and zoomed in
by up to a million times using the zoom/pan controls.
ico Technology has introduced the PicoScope 6000E Series FlexRes oscilloscopes, The PicoScope 6000E Series utilises PicoScope 6 PC
Pfeaturing 8 channels with 500 MHz bandwidth, 16 digital channels, and resolution of software, a proven and popular graphical user interface with
8, 10 or 12 bits. The products work with PicoScope 6 application software, which takes over 100 000 users worldwide. It presents information in
full advantage of the latest PC performance and display capabilities, showing clean, crisp time, frequency and digital domains as required by the user.
waveforms on screens of any size and resolution. Mask limit testing and user-defined alarms are included, as
The top-of-the range PicoScope 6824E has dual 5 GS/s analogue to digital converters well as capture memory segmentation from 1 to 10,000.
and 4 giga samples of capture memory as standard. It offers a rich set of built-in tools To address the proliferation of serial communication
for embedded systems debug, including DeepMeasure that captures the measurement technologies, PicoScope 6 includes decoders for 21 serial
results of each one in up to a million cycles. protocols as well as parallel bus decoding of the digital
8 + 16 channels address challenges faced by engineers when debugging complex IoT channels. The most recent additions to the list of supported
and embedded systems that have mixed analogue and digital elements, such as serial and protocols are BroadR-Reach (100BASE-T1) Automotive
parallel communications with high-speed low-voltage signaling. Ethernet, Manchester and DALI. More protocols are in
FlexRes architecture allows the hardware to be configured by the user to optimise development and will be deployed as free-of-charge
either the sampling rate, to 5 GS/s at 8-bit resolution, or up to 12-bit resolution with updates in the future.
1,25 GS/s sampling. For diverse applications such as capturing and decoding fast digital The PicoScope 6000E Series delivers the best
signals, or looking for distortion in sensitive analog signals, flexible resolution allows both performance in its class, with better than –50 dB harmonic
measurements to be made with the same oscilloscope. distortion at 1 MHz on all models and over 60 dB SFDR
The advantage of deep capture memory is the ability to capture long-duration events (PicoScope 6824E). Baseline noise specification is < 150 μV
while maintaining a high sample rate, which means that the oscilloscope can make the RMS on the most sensitive range.
best use of its bandwidth. The PicoScope 6824E, with standard 4 GS memory, can capture PicoScope 6000E further increases its value with an
a 200-millisecond signal at a sampling rate of 5 GS/s, so 200 picoseconds resolution (a integrated 200 MS/s arbitrary waveform generator (AWG)
and 50 MHz function generator with built-in sine, square,
triangle, DC voltage, ramp up, ramp down, Gaussian and
half-sine functions.
Pico is also introducing the Pico probe holder system. It
uses novel flexible “gooseneck” holders and is designed to
work perfectly with Pico 2,5 mm passive probes with spring
tips for all PicoScope 6000 Series scopes. The holders are
mounted on a mirror-finished steel base plate, equipped
with magnetic PCB posts with insulation washers to hold the
device under test (DUT) to address the perennial problem of
how to make reliable multiple probe connections to a DUT.
Kristo Engelbrecht, product manager commented
“The PicoScope 6000E will disrupt the mid-range
oscilloscope market. It offers new capabilities that
engineers need to debug and validate their next
generation of electronic designs.

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