Datasheet

PicoScope
®
5000D Series oscilloscopes
High bandwidth, high sampling rate
Most 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 sampling rate to 10 GS/s for a more detailed view of repetitive signals.
Deep capture memory
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 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 on the market.
DeepMeasure
PicoScope’s 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 twelve 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.
Waveform buffer and navigator
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. PicoScope 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.
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