Datasheet

PicoScope
®
5000D Series oscilloscopes
The PicoScope 6 DeepMeasure tool uses
deep memory to analyze every cycle
contained in each triggered waveform
acquisition. It displays the results in a
table, with the parameter elds shown in
columns and waveform cycles shown in
rows: you can easily sort the results by
any parameter and correlate them with the
waveform display.
The current version of the tool includes
sixteen parameters per cycle, and can
display up to a million cycles.
Parameters include cycle time, frequency,
pulse width, duty cycle, rise and fall time,
overshoot, undershoot, max voltage and
min voltage. Start and end times relative to
the trigger are given for each cycle.
DeepMeasure
PicoScope 5000D Series oscilloscopes
have waveform capture memories
ranging from 128 megasamples to 512
megasamples – many times larger than
competing scopes. Deep memory enables
the capture of long-duration waveforms
at maximum sampling speed. In fact,
the PicoScope 5000D Series can capture
waveforms over 500ms long with 1ns
resolution. In contrast, the same 500ms
waveform captured by an oscilloscope
with a 10megasample memory would
have just 50ns resolution.
Deep memory can be useful in other
ways too: PicoScope 6 lets you divide
the capture memory into a number of
segments, up to a maximum of 10 000.
You can set up a trigger condition to store
a separate capture in each segment,
with as little as 1 µs dead time between
captures. Once you have acquired the
data, you can step through the memory
one segment at a time until you nd the
event you are looking for.
Powerful tools are included to allow you
to manage and examine all of this data.
As well as functions such as mask limit
testing and color persistence mode, the
PicoScope 6 software enables you to
zoom into your waveform by a factor
of several million. The Zoom Overview
window allows you to easily control the
size and location of the zoom area. Other
tools, such as the waveform buffer, serial
decoding and hardware acceleration
work with the deep memory, making the
PicoScope 5000D some of the most
powerful oscilloscopes on the market.
Deep capture memory
Many USB-powered oscilloscopes have
real-time sampling rates of only 100 or
200MS/s, but the PicoScope 5000D
Series offers up to 1 GS/s, and a maximum
bandwidth of 200MHz.
Equivalent time sampling (ETS) mode
can be used to further boost the effective
sampling rate to 10 GS/s for a more
detailed view of repetitive signals.
High bandwidth, high sampling rate
Ever spotted a glitch on a waveform, but
by the time you’ve stopped the scope it’s
gone? With PicoScope you no longer need
to worry about missing glitches or other
transient events, as it can store the last
10000 waveforms in its circular waveform
buffer.
The buffer navigator provides an ecient
way of navigating and searching through
waveforms, effectively letting you turn
back time. When carrying out a mask limit
test, you can also set the navigator to
show only mask fails, enabling you to nd
any glitches quickly.
Waveform buffer and navigator