Data Sheet

PicoScope
®
5000D Series oscilloscopes
Mask limit testing allows you to compare
live signals against known good signals,
and is designed for production and
debugging environments. Simply capture
a known good signal, generate a mask
around it and then use the alarms
to automatically save any waveform
(complete with a time stamp) that violates
the mask. PicoScope 6 will capture any
intermittent glitches and show a failure
count in the Measurements window (which
you can still use for other measurements).
You can also set the waveform buffer
navigator to show only mask fails,
enabling you to nd any glitches quickly.
Mask les are easy to edit (numerically
or graphically), import and export, and
you can simultaneously run mask limit
tests on multiple channels and in multiple
viewports.
With PicoScope 6 you can perform a
variety of mathematical calculations
on your input signals and reference
waveforms. Select simple functions
such as addition and inversion, or open
the equation editor to create complex
functions involving lters (lowpass,
highpass, bandpass and bandstop lters),
trigonometry, exponentials, logarithms,
statistics, integrals and derivatives.
Display up to eight real or calculated
channels in each scope view. If you run
out of space, just open another scope view
and add more. You can also use math
channels to reveal new details in complex
signals, for example graphing the changing
duty cycle or frequency of your signal over
time.
The custom probes feature allows you to
correct for gain, attenuation, offsets and
nonlinearities in probes, transducers and
other sensors, and to measure quantities
other than voltages (such as current,
power or temperature). Denitions for
standard Pico-supplied probes are built
in, but you can also create your own using
linear scaling or even an interpolated data
table, and save them for later use.
You can program PicoScope 6 to execute actions when certain events occur.
The events that can trigger an alarm include mask limit fails, trigger events and buffers
full.
PicoScope 6 actions include saving a le, playing a sound, executing a program and
triggering the arbitrary waveform generator.
Math channels and lters
Custom probes
Alarms
Mask limit testing