PicoScope® 4000A Series

PicoScope 4224A

PicoScope 4424A

PicoScope 4824A

Arbitrary waveform generator

Update rate

80 MS/s

Buffer size

16 k samples

Vertical resolution

14 bits (output step size approximately 300 µV)

Bandwidth

1 MHz

Rise time (10% to 90%)

150 ns

Sweep modes, triggering, frequency accuracy and resolution, voltage range and accuracy and output characteristics as for function generator.

Spectrum analyzer

Frequency range

DC to 20 MHz

Display modes

Magnitude, average, peak hold

Y axis

Logarithmic (dbV, dBu, dBm, arbitrary dB) or linear (volts)

X axis

Linear or logarithmic

Windowing functions

Rectangular, Gaussian, triangular, Blackman, Blackman−Harris, Hamming, Hann, flat-top

Number of FFT points

Selectable from 128 to 1 million in powers of 2

Math channels

Functions

−x, x+y, x−y, x*y, x/y, x^y, sqrt, exp, ln, log, abs, norm, sign, sin, cos, tan, arcsin, arccos, arctan, sinh, cosh, tanh, delay, average,

frequency, derivative, integral, min, max, peak, duty, highpass, lowpass, bandpass, bandstop

Operands

A to B, D or H (input channels), T (time), reference waveforms, pi, constants

Automatic measurements

Scope mode

AC RMS, cycle time, DC average, duty cycle, edge count, fall time, falling edge count, falling rate, frequency, high pulse width,

low pulse width, maximum, minimum, negative duty cycle, peak-to-peak, rise time, rising edge count , rising rate, true RMS

Spectrum mode

Frequency at peak, amplitude at peak, average amplitude at peak, total power, THD %, THD dB, THD+N, SFDR, SINAD, SNR,

IMD

Statistics

Minimum, maximum, average, standard deviation

DeepMeasure™

Parameters

Cycle number, cycle time, frequency, low pulse width, high pulse width, duty cycle (high), duty cycle (low), rise time, fall time,

undershoot, overshoot, max. voltage, min. voltage, voltage peak to peak, start time, end time

Serial decoding

Protocols

1-Wire, ARINC 429, CAN, DALI, DCC, DMX512, Ethernet 10Base-T, FlexRay, I²C, I²S, LIN, Manchester, Modbus ASCII, Modbus

RTU, PS/2, SENT, SPI, UART (subject to number of channels available)

Mask limit testing

Statistics

Pass/fail, failure count, total count

Mask creation

User-drawn, table entry, auto-generated from waveform or imported from file

Display

Interpolation

Linear or sin(x)/x

Persistence modes

Digital color, analog intensity, custom, fast

Output

File formats

bmp, csv, gif, animated gif, jpg, mat, pdf, png, psdata, pssettings, txt

Functions

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