PicoScope 3000 Series

Application examples

Testing on the move

The PicoScope 3000 Series oscilloscopes slip easily into a laptop bag, so you don’t need to carry bulky benchtop instruments to perform

on-site troubleshooting. Being powered via a USB connection, your PicoScope can simply be plugged into your laptop and used for

measuring wherever you are. The PC connection also makes saving and sharing your data quick and easy: in a matter of seconds you can

save your scope traces to review later, or attach the complete data file to an email for analysis by other engineers away from the test site.

As PicoScope 6 is free to download by anyone, colleagues can use the full capabilities of the software, such as serial decoding and spectrum

analysis, without needing an oscilloscope themselves.

Embedded debugging

You can test and debug a complete signal-processing chain using a PicoScope 3406D MSO.

Use the built-in arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) to inject single-shot or continuous analog signals. The response of your system can

then be observed in both the analog domain, using the four 200 MHz input channels, and in the digital domain with 16 digital inputs at up to

100 MHz. Follow the analog signal through the system while simultaneously using the built-in serial decoding function to view the output of

an I2C or SPI ADC.

If your system drives a DAC in response to the analog input changing, you can decode the I2C or SPI communication to that as well as its

analog output. This can all be performed simultaneously using the 16 digital and 4 analog channels.

Using the deep 512 MS buffer memory, you can capture the complete response of your system without sacrificing the sampling rate, and

zoom in on the captured data to find glitches and other points of interest.