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PicoScope
®
5000D Series oscilloscopes
The PicoScope 5000D Series offers
an industry-leading set of advanced
triggers including pulse width, runt pulse,
windowed and dropout.
The digital trigger available on MSO
models allows you to trigger the scope
when any or all of the 16 digital inputs
match a user-dened pattern. You can
specify a condition for each channel
individually, or set up a pattern for all
channels at once using a hexadecimal or
binary value.
You can also use the logic trigger to
combine the digital trigger with an edge
or window trigger on any of the analog
inputs, for example to trigger on data
values in a clocked parallel bus.
In 1991, Pico Technology pioneered the
use of digital triggering and precision
hysteresis using the actual digitized data.
Traditionally, digital oscilloscopes have
used an analog trigger architecture based
on comparators, which can cause time
and amplitude errors that cannot always
be calibrated out. Additionally, the use of
comparators can often limit the trigger
sensitivity at high bandwidths and can
create a long trigger rearm delay.
Pico’s technique of fully digital triggering
reduces trigger errors and allows our
oscilloscopes to trigger on the smallest
signals, even at the full bandwidth, so you
can set trigger levels and hysteresis with
high precision and resolution.
The digital trigger architecture also
reduces the rearm delay. Combined with
the segmented memory, this enables you
to use rapid triggering to capture 10000
waveforms in 10ms in 8-bit mode.
The spectrum view plots amplitude
against frequency and is ideal for nding
noise, crosstalk or distortion in signals.
PicoScope 6 uses a fast Fourier transform
(FFT) spectrum analyzer, which (unlike a
traditional swept spectrum analyzer) can
display the spectrum of a single, non-
repeating waveform.
With a click of a button, you can display a
spectrum plot of the active channels, with
a maximum frequency of up to 200 MHz.
A comprehensive range of settings gives
you control over the number of spectrum
bins, window functions, scaling (including
log/log) and display mode (instantaneous,
average or peak-hold).
Display multiple spectrum views with
different channel selections and zoom
factors, and place these alongside time-
domain views of the same data. Choose
from a number of automatic frequency-
domain measurements to add to the
display, including THD, THD+N, SNR,
SINAD and IMD. You can apply mask limit
testing to a spectrum and can even use
the AWG and spectrum mode together to
perform swept scalar network analysis.
Advanced triggers Spectrum analyzer
Digital triggering architecture