Datasheet
PicoScope
®
5000D Series oscilloscopes
Persistence mode
PicoScope’s persistence mode
options allow you to see old
and new data superimposed,
with newer waveforms drawn
in a brighter color or deeper
shade. This makes it easy to
spot glitches and dropouts and
estimate their relative frequency
– useful for displaying
and interpreting complex
analog signals such as video
waveforms and analog modulation signals.
The PicoScope 5000D Series’ HAL3 hardware acceleration means that, in Fast
Persistence mode, waveform update rates of up to 130 000 waveforms per second are
achievable. Color-coding or intensity-grading shows which areas are stable and which
are intermittent. Choose between analog intensity, digital color and fast display modes
or create your own custom setup.
Mixed-signal models
The PicoScope 5000D MSO models add 16 digital channels to the 2 or 4 analog
channels, enabling you to accurately time-correlate analog and digital channels. Digital
channels may be grouped and displayed as a bus, with each bus value displayed in hex,
binary or decimal or as a level (for DAC testing). You can set advanced triggers across
both the analog and digital channels.
The digital inputs also bring extra power to the serial decoding options. You can
decode serial data on all analog and digital channels simultaneously, giving you up to
20 channels of data – for example decoding multiple SPI, I²C, CAN bus, LIN bus and
FlexRay signals all at the same time.
Arbitrary waveform and function
generator
All PicoScope 5000D units have a built-
in 14-bit 200MS/s arbitrary waveform
generator (AWG). You can create and adapt
arbitrary waveforms using the built-in editor,
import them from existing oscilloscope
traces, or load a waveform from a
spreadsheet
The AWG can also act as a function generator with a range of standard output signals,
including sine, square, triangle, DC level, white noise and PRBS.
As well as the basic controls to set level, offset and frequency, more advanced controls
allow you to sweep over a range of frequencies. Combined with the spectrum peak hold
option, this makes a powerful tool for testing amplier and lter responses.
Trigger tools allow you to output one or more cycles of a waveform when various
conditions are met, such as the scope triggering or a mask limit test failing.
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