A passport sized, 19m thick series of oscilloscopes from Pico Technology offer bandwidths up to 200MHz and an arbitrary waveform generator. ThePicoScope 2000 series instruments are connected to and powered from a USB port and are almost 80% smaller than the previous generation of PicoScopes.

The PicoScope 9300 Series TDR/TDT Sampling Oscilloscopes can perform time-domain reflectometry and transmission mismatch and network analysis on high-frequency cables, PCBs, backplanes and interconnections.

Hot on the heels of the 20 GHz bandwidth and TDR/TDT models, the new PicoScope 9321 Sampling Oscilloscope integrates a 9.5 GHz optical fiber-to-electrical converter with a high-performance, two-channel, 20 GHz PC Sampling Oscilloscope. This extends Pico Technology’s comprehensive serial data and eye diagram visualization to fibre optic data systems with bit rates up to 11 Gb/s and includes clock recovery.

Pico Technology’s PicoScope 6000 Series oscilloscopes now boast 500MHz bandwidth on four channels, and an industry-leading 2 Gsamples of buffer memory. The new oscilloscopes offer both the performance and the advanced analysis capability to speed debug of today’s complex electronic designs.

The PicoScope 9300 Series Sampling Oscilloscopes can perform pre-compliance tests, fault-finding, design, debug and margin testing on serial communications signals such as 10 Gb Ethernet, SONET/SDH STM64 and FEC1071, 10x Fibre Channel, and InfiniBand and PCI Express. These two-channel oscilloscopes will replace traditional, full-sized bench-top instruments without compromising on usability, analysis features or accuracy.

For the first time in an oscilloscope, Pico Technology has used reconfigurable ADC technology to offer a choice of resolutions from 8 to 16 bits in a single product. Most digital oscilloscopes gain their high sampling rates by interleaving multiple 8-bit ADCs. Despite careful design, the interleaving process introduces errors that always make the dynamic performance worse than the performance of the individual ADC cores.

The PicoScope 6 oscilloscope software can now decode I2S data thanks to the latest software update from Pico Technology. The I2S (Inter-IC Sound) standard is a common serial data format used in audio equipment such as CD players and DACs. All PicoScope users can download the new beta release free of charge. As well as I2S, the software can decode I2C, RS-232/UART, SPI, CAN, LIN and FlexRay serial data.

Pico Technology have today announced the release of the first PC oscilloscopes with a USB 3.0 interface. “USB 3.0 ports are appearing on most new computers and laptops,” explained Managing Director Alan Tong, “so buyers of USB oscilloscopes will expect to benefit from the higher data transfer rate. With the new USB 3.0 PicoScopes, large data captures and streaming of large data sets are now much faster.”

The new range of mixed-signal oscilloscopes from Pico Technology combines the deep memory and high performance of the PicoScope 3000 Series with a powerful 16 channel logic analyzer. With a built-in function generator and arbitrary waveform generator also included, these oscilloscopes offer a complete test bench in one compact, USB-powered device.

Now it’s even easier to get started with PicoScope, the world’s most popular automotive oscilloscope. Pico Technology has just released two new starter kits to give you the perfect introduction to oscilloscope diagnostics.

Pico Technology’s DrDAQ compact single-board data logger adds 17 I/O channels to your Raspberry Pi. Now your Linux application can have access to a 100 kHz oscilloscope, arbitrary waveform generator, 4 digital I/Os (2 with pulse-counting input and PWM output), 24-bit RGB LED, built-in light sensor, temperature sensor, microphone and sound level sensor, resistance measuring input and pH/redox sensor input.

Expansion of the PicoScope 3000 Series of high-performance oscilloscopes gives designers six new 4-channel models. The new oscilloscopes offer a maximum sampling rate of 1 GS/s (up to 10 GS/s effective for repetitive signals), a range of input bandwidths from 60 MHz to 200 MHz, and buffer memory depths from 4 M to 128 M samples.

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The PicoScope 2205 MSO gives you a two-channel oscilloscope combined with a 16 channel logic analyzer, all in one compact, portable USB instrument. Now you can view analog waveforms and digital data on the same screen with the efficient and easy-to-use PicoScope software.

The PicoScope 9000 includes FFT spectrum analyzer mode to view signals in the frequency domain. This video demonstrates a typical application comparing the phase angles between harmonics.

The PicoScope 9000 can be used for pre-compliance testing of data standards. One of the methods for this is mask testing. Here, mask testing is applied to an STM4 data stream eye diagram.

Using built-in measurements to characterize features of electrical signals saves time, and significantly improves measurement accuracy compared to visual and manual measurements.

TDR (Time Domain Reflectometry) can be used for pre-compliance testing of SATA cables to determine impedance and length.

The three new oscilloscopes in the PicoScope 2000 Series are the first USB-powered oscilloscopes to offer a real-time sampling rate of 1 GS/s. With two channels, bandwidths ranging from 50 MHz to 200 MHz, a built-in function generator, arbitrary waveform generator and external trigger input, these compact and economical scopes are perfect for engineers and technicians needing a complete test bench in a single unit.

Jitter measurement is fundamental to high-speed digital data applications. This video demonstrates 3 ways of measuring jitter using the PicoScope 9000. The data used is NRZ (non-return to zero).