User Manual

Product information4

3 Product information

3.1

System requirements

Using with PicoScope for Windows

To ensure that your PicoScope 4000 Series PC Oscilloscope operates correctly with

the PicoScope software, you must have a computer with at least the minimum system

requirements to run one of the supported operating systems, as shown in the

following table. The performance of the oscilloscope will be better with a more

powerful PC. Please note the PicoScope software is not installed as part of the SDK.

Item

Specification

Operating system

Windows XP SP2

Windows Vista

Windows 7

32 bit and 64* bit versions supported

Processor

As required by Windows

Memory

Free disk space

Ports

USB 2.0 compliant port (recommended)

USB 1.1 compliant port (not recommended)

* While the driver will run on a 64 bit operating system, the driver itself is 32 bit, and

therefore will run as 32 bit.

Using with custom applications

Drivers are available for the operating systems mentioned above.