Supplied Free of Charge

PicoScope Software is supplied free of charge with Pico Oscilloscope and data acquisition products, and updates can be downloaded for free. It is available in many different languages.

MAIN FEATURES

• Oscilloscope Controls
• Automatic Measurements
• Powerful Capture and Analysis
• Display Tools

ADVANCED TRIGGERS AND RAPID TRIGGERING

PicoScope has a built-in set of advanced triggers to help you capture the data you need. Some models contain fast triggering hardware that allows you to capture up to 1 million waveforms per second. This improves your chances of spotting an infrequent glitch.

COLOR MODES

See old and new data superimposed, with new data in a brighter color or shade.
This makes it easy to see glitches and drop-outs and to estimate their relative frequency. Choose between analog persistence and digital color, or create a custom display mode.

MASK LIMIT TESTING

This feature is specially designed for production and debugging environments.
Capture a signal from a known working system, and PicoScope will draw a mask around it with your specified tolerance. Connect the system under test, and PicoScope will highlight any parts of the waveform that fall outside the mask area. The highlighted details persist on the display, allowing the oscilloscope to catch intermittent glitches while you work on something else. The measurements window counts the number of failures, and can display other measurements and statistics at the same time.

The numerical and graphical mask editors (both shown above) can be used separately or in combination, allowing you to enter accurate mask specifications and to modify existing masks. You can import and export masks as files.

SPECTRUM ANALYZER

With the click of a button, you can open a new window to display a spectrum plot of the selected channels. The spectrum analyzer allows signals to be viewed in the frequency domain using FFTs of up to 1 million points. A full range of settings give you control over the number of spectrum bands, window types and display modes.

ARBITRARY WAVEFORM AND FUNCTION GENERATOR

Generate standard waveforms or define your own using the power of the built-in
arbitrary waveform generator. You can import arbitrary waveforms from data
files or draw them using the built-in AWG editor.

SERIAL BUS DECODING

The PicoScope 4000, 5000 and 6000 Series oscilloscopes are recommended for serial decoding as their deep memory allows the software to collect long, uninterrupted sequences of data. For example, the PicoScope 5204 can collect many thousands of frames of CAN bus data over several seconds into its 128-million-sample memory.

To decode serial data, you set up PicoScope in the usual way to display the signal or signals of interest, and then select Serial Decoding. PicoScope gives you a few options to define the type of serial bus protocol you are using, including a selection of all the common data rates. It then displays the data in the format of your choice: "in view", "in window", or both at once.

"In view" format shows the decoded data beneath the waveform on a common time axis, with error frames marked in red. You can zoom in on these frames to look for noise or distortion on the waveform.

"In window" format shows a list of the decoded frames, including the data and all flags and identifiers. You can set up filtering conditions to display only the frames you are interested in, search for frames with specified properties, or define a start pattern that the program will wait for before listing the data.

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