PicoScope® 6000E Series
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A smarter scope for faster debug Deep-memory, high-performance oscilloscopes and MSOs 8-bit to 12-bit FlexRes® ADC A choice of 4 or 8 analog channels Add 8 or 16 digital MSO channels Up to 500 MHz bandwidth 200 ms capture time at 5 GS/s Up to 4 GS capture memory 50 MHz 200 MS/s 14-bit AWG 300 000 waveforms per second update rate PicoScope 6 software and PicoSDK included 21 serial protocol decoder / analyzers included Mask limit testing and user-definable alarms High-resolution time-stamping of waveforms Over ten million DeepMeasure™ results per acquisition Advanced triggers: edge, window, pulse width, window pulse width, level dropout, window dropout, interval, runt and logic

Product overview The PicoScope 6000E Series fixed-resolution and FlexRes oscilloscopes provide 8 to 12 bits of vertical resolution, with up to 500 MHz bandwidth and 5 GS/s sampling rate. Models with four or eight analog channels have the timing and amplitude resolution you need to reveal signal integrity issues such as timing errors, glitches, dropouts, crosstalk and metastability issues. Typical applications These oscilloscopes are ideal for design engineers working with high-performance embedded systems, signal processing, power electronics, mechatronics and automotive designs, and for...

Power, portability and performance Traditional benchtop mixed-signal oscilloscopes take up a lot of bench space, and models with eight analog channels are prohibitively expensive for many engineers working on next-generation designs. PicoScope 6000E Series oscilloscopes are small and portable while offering the high-performance specifications required by engineers in the lab or on the move, and deliver lowest cost of ownership for this class of instrument. The PicoScope 6000E Series offers up to 8 analog channels, plus an optional 8 or 16 digital channels with the plug-in 8-channel TA369...

What is FlexRes? Pico FlexRes flexible-resolution oscilloscopes allow you to reconfigure the scope hardware to optimize either the sampling rate or the resolution. This means you can reconfigure the hardware to be either a fast (5 GS/s) 8-bit oscilloscope for looking at digital signals, a 10-bit oscilloscope for general-purpose use or a high-resolution 12-bit oscilloscope for audio work and other analog applications. Whether you’re capturing and decoding fast digital signals or looking for distortion in sensitive analog signals, FlexRes oscilloscopes are the answer. FlexRes is available on...

Mixed signal option When fitted with optional 8-channel TA369 MSO pods, the PicoScope 6000E Series adds up to 16 high-performance digital channels to up to eight analog channels, enabling you to accurately time-correlate analog and digital channels. Digital channel bandwidth is 500 MHz, equivalent to 1 Gb/s, and the input capacitance of only 3.5 pF minimizes loading on the device under test. Digital channels, captured from either parallel or multiple serial buses, 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)....

PicoScope 6000E Series inputs, outputs and indicators Intelligent probe interfaces Power LED Status/trigger LED AUX TRIGGER I/O – trigger from an external logic level source and integrate the scope into a larger system Digital 1 and Digital 2 MSO pod interfaces – accept TA369 MSO pods Probe compensation output Probe compensation ground 10 MHz clock reference input The scope will automatically switch to the external reference when a clock signal is detected. Ground – accepts bare wire or 4 mm (banana) plug. Intelligent probe interface (probes coming soon!) 4-channel front-panel Analog input...

PicoScope 6 software The display can be as simple or as advanced as you need. Begin with a single view of one channel, and then expand the display to include any number of live channels, math channels and reference waveforms. Tools: Including serial decoding, reference channels, macro recorder, alarms, mask limit testing and math channels. Waveform replay tools: PicoScope 6 automatically records up to 10 000 of the most recent waveforms. You can quickly scan through to look for intermittent events, or use the Buffer Navigator to search visually. Zoom and pan tools: PicoScope 6 allows a zoom...

Advanced display PicoScope 6 software dedicates the majority of the display area to the waveform, ensuring that the maximum amount of data is visible at all times. The size of the display is only limited by the size of your computer’s monitor, so even with a laptop, the viewing area is much bigger, with much higher resolution, than that of a benchtop scope. With such a large display area available, you can create a customizable split-screen display and view multiple channels or different views of the same signal at the same time – the software can even show multiple oscilloscope and...

Signal fidelity Careful front-end design and shielding reduces noise, crosstalk and harmonic distortion. PicoScope 6000E Series oscilloscopes exhibit a dynamic performance of up to 60 dB SFDR. With PicoScope 6, when you probe a circuit, you can trust in the waveform you see on the screen. High resolution for low-level signals With their 12-bit resolution, the PicoScope 6824E and 6424E can display low-level signals at high zoom factors. This allows you to view and measure features such as noise and ripple superimposed on larger DC or low-frequency voltages. Additionally, you can use the...

High-end features as standard Buying a PicoScope is not like making a purchase from other oscilloscope companies, where optional extras considerably increase the price. With our scopes, high-end features such as serial decoding, mask limit testing, advanced math channels, segmented memory, hardware‑based time-stamping and a signal generator are all included in the price. To protect your investment, both the PC software and firmware inside the scope can be updated. Pico Technology has a long history of providing new features for free through software downloads. We deliver on our promises of...