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, you can simply plug your PicoScope

into your laptop and use it 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 capture 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.