PC oscilloscope boasts eight high resolution channels

Managing Director Alan Tong explains “The new 8-channel PicoScope has the same small footprint as Pico’s existing 2 and 4-channel models, and can replace the cumbersome full-sized scope on your workbench”. Like all PicoScopes, the 4824 is small, light, and highly portable; despite its high specification it is entirely powered via USB and does not require a bulky separate adaptor.

With 8 high-precision, low-noise inputs, a bandwidth of 20MHz and sensitivity from 2mV/div, this scope is well suited to a broad range of applications such as power supplystart sequencing, decode and time-aligned display of related I/O, 7‑channel audio, 3‑phase voltage and current measurements, and multi-phase motor drives. The maximum sampling rate of 80 MS/s, deep buffer memory of 256 MS and data streaming enable the scope to capture detailed timing data over prolonged periods.

The PicoScope 4824 includes a comprehensive list of features as standard, such as a 20MHz FFT spectrum analyser, segmented memory (for bursts of up to 10,000 captures in less than 30 milliseconds), math channels, automatic measurements, color persistence display mode, advanced digital triggering, mask limit testing and serial decoding (SPI, I²C, I²S, RS-232/UART, CAN, LIN and FlexRay). A free SDK is also included for developing applications in various popular programming languages including C, Microsoft Visual Basic, National Instruments LabVIEW and MathWorks MATLAB with example code