Pico Technology (www.picotech.com) has released a scope from the PicoScope 3000 Series of USB Oscilloscopes — the PicoScope 3204A. This two channel device features 60 MHz bandwidth, a huge buffer memory of 4 MS, a maximum sampling rate of 500 MS/s and an enhanced resolution of up to 12 bits.
The scope comes with a protective case for its probes, a user manual, USB cable, 2 x oscilloscope probes (x1/x10), free software updates, PicoScope oscilloscope software and a five year warranty.
PicoScope 3204A is designed with an integrated function generator with triangle, square, sine and DC level. Its advanced controls combined with its spectrum peak hold options make the scope a powerful tool for filter responses and testing amplifier.
Its built-in waveform generator enables users to generate a waveform of any shape. The AWG editor also allows the creation and editing of waveforms, which can be imported from a previously captured waveform or loaded from a spreadsheet.
With numerous frames of uninterrupted data captured, the scope’s deep memory makes it suitable for decoding. Data can be decoded by users from a serial bus such as RS232/UART, I²C, CAN and SPI bus. Unlike traditional bus analyzer, the scope allows users to view the original electrical waveform together with the data.
Its custom probe feature allows users to convert to different units of measurement, such as power, current or temperature or to correct for attenuation, offsets, gain and nonlinearities in special probes.
It also provides a mask limit testing feature that is specifically designed for debugging and production environments. The PicoScope can capture a signal from an identified working system and with the tolerance specified, users can draw a mask around it. Connecting the system under test enables the scope to highlight parts of the waveform that are outside the mask area.
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