The six PicoScope 6000 Series USB oscilloscopes are said to have the highest sampling rates and deepest memories of any oscilloscope in their price range. With an option of either a built-in function generator or a arbitrary waveform generator, the scopes provide four channels with a 5-Gsample/s maximum rate, 250 MHz to 500 MHz input bandwidths, and buffer memory depths from 128 Msamples to 1 Gsamples.
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The scope’s Windows PC software includes the expected scope and spectrum analyzer functions as well as serial decoding, mask limit testing, segmented memory, and advanced triggers: features that often cost extra on other manufacturers’ scopes. Other built-in features include persistence displays with fast waveform update rates, math channels, automatic measurements with statistics, programmable alarms, and decoding of I2 C, UART/RS232, SPI, CAN and LIN bus signals. Updates to the software are released free of charge. A free SDK lets user control the scopes from custom applications. (From £1,995 to £4,495 available now.)
By Richard Comerford
Pico Technology , St. Neots , Cambridgeshire , UK
April Wright 011-441480 396 395
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