PicoScope features at a glance
•20MHzoscilloscopeandFFTspectrumanalyzer
•26automaticmeasurements
•Masklimittestingwithalarms
•Serialbusdecoding
•Per-channellow-passfiltering
•Softwareresolutionenhancementto16bits
•Mathchannelswithbasicandadvancedfunctions
•Referencewaveforms
•Waveformbufferwithupto10,000segmentsandoverviewwindow
•Digitalcolorandanalogintensitypersistencedisplaymodes
•XYmode
All-in-one instruments
ThePicoScope4000SeriesPCOscilloscopesareextremelyversatile,withanoscilloscopeandspectrum
analyzerincludedineverymodel.
PicoScope 4224 IEPE
The2-channelIEPEversioniscompatiblewithindustry-standardIEPE(integratedelectronicspiezoelectric)
accelerometersandmicrophones,makingitsuitableforavarietyofmeasurementapplicationsincludingnoise
andvibrationanalysis.
Convenience and speed
ThePicoScope4000SeriesscopesobtaintheirpowerfromtheUSB2.0interface,sothere’snoneedforan
externalpowersupply.TheUSBportalsodelivershigh-speeddatatoyourPCtogiveyouaresponsive,high-
resolutiondisplay.Amaximumsamplingrateof80MS/siscombinedwithahighresolutionof12bits,giving
you16timesbetterverticalresolutionthanmoststandardscopes.
Deep memory
The32Msamplebufferis‘alwayson’.Thereisneveracompromisebetweenbuffersizeandwaveformupdate
rate,becausethePicoScope4000Seriesalwaysmaximisesbothatthesametime.Nowyoucancaptureevery
waveformwithfulldetailwithouthavingtothinkaboutit.
Advanced software
ThescopesarebundledwiththelatestversionofPicoScopeforWindows.PicoScopeiseasytouseandcan
exportdatainavarietyofgraphical,textandbinaryformats.AlsoincludedareWindowsdriversandexample
programs.
Mask limit testing
PicoScopeallowsyoutodrawamaskaroundanysignalwithuser-definedtolerances.Thishasbeendesigned
specificallyforproductionanddebuggingenvironments,enablingyoutocomparesignals.Simplycapturea
knowngoodsignal,drawamaskaroundit,andthenattachthesystemundertest.PicoScopewillcaptureany
intermittentglitchesandcanshowafailurecountandotherstatisticsintheMeasurementswindow.
Thenumericalandgraphicalmaskeditorscanbeusedseparatelyor
incombination,allowingyoutoenteraccuratemaskspecifications,
modifyexistingmasks,andimportandexportmasksasfiles.
Math channels
WithPicoScopeyoucanperformavarietyofmathematical
calculationsonyourinputsignalsandreferencewaveforms.
Usethebuilt-inlistforsimplefunctionssuchasadditionandinversion,
oropentheequationeditorandcreatecomplexfunctionsinvolving
trigonometry,exponentials,logarithms,statistics,integralsand
derivatives.
Advanced triggers
Aswellasthestandardrangeoftriggersfoundonmostoscilloscopes,
thePicoScope4000Seriesoffersoneofthebestselectionsof
advancedtriggersavailable.Theseincludepulsewidth,windowedand
dropouttriggerstohelpyoufindandcaptureyoursignalquickly.
Oscilloscope
Spectrum analyzer
Quick and powerful zoom
Mask limit testing
Math channels
Advanced triggers
PicoScope 4000 Series