PicoScope 6000 Series

PicoScope 6000E 4/8-Channel 8-12 bit Mixed-Signal Oscilloscopes are available in 300/500/750MHz, 1GHz and GHz versions and feature active probe inputs, bringing very high-speed performance to the PC oscilloscope world, with up to 10GSa/s real-time sampling and 4GSa deep memory.

The 4/8-channel PicoScope 6000E Series of 500MHz Oscilloscopes provides 8 to 12 bits of vertical resolution, and up to 5GSa/s sampling rate with 4GSa memory, allowing these scopes to display single-shot pulses with 200ps time resolution.  Seven 4-channel models and two 8-channel models are available. The screen update rate is a remarkable 300,000 waveforms per second.   

All 6000E models can operate with an extra 4 bits of resolution with the enhanced vertical resolution software feature — a digital signal processing technique built into PicoScope 6. Additionally, the 6000E oscilloscopes offer 8 or 16 optional digital channels when using the plug-in TA369 MSO pods, enabling accurate time-correlation of analog and digital channels.

All 6000E models include a 14-bit 200MS/s 50MHz arbitrary waveform generator (AWG). Its variable sample clock avoids the jitter on waveform edges seen with fixed-clock generators and allows generation of accurate frequencies down to 100μHz. AWG waveforms can be created or edited using the built-in editor, imported from oscilloscope traces, loaded from a spreadsheet or exported to a .csv file.  The SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface and hardware acceleration ensure that the display is smooth and responsive even with long captures.  The free PicoScope software includes decoders for over 20 serial protocols.

With up to a million points, PicoScope’s FFT spectrum display has excellent frequency resolution and a low noise floor. A click of a button will display a spectrum plot of the active channels, with a maximum frequency of up to 500MHz.  Using a 4K monitor attached to the controlling PC, PicoScope 6 software can display more than ten times the information of ordinary oscilloscopes.  PicoScope software also supports dual monitors, allowing instrument control and waveforms displayed on one, and large data sets from serial protocol decoders or DeepMeasure results on the second monitor. 

The 6000E’s 4 or 8 analog channels have the timing and amplitude resolution needed to reveal signal integrity challenges such as glitches, runts, dropouts, noise, distortion and ringing.  This series gives the waveform memory, resolution and analysis tools needed to test today’s high‑performance embedded computers and next-generation embedded system designs.  The 6000E oscilloscopes are ideal for design engineers working with signal processing, power electronics, mechatronics, and automotive designs, and for researchers and scientists working on multi-channel high-performance experiments in physics labs, particle accelerators, and similar facilities.  Supported by the free PicoScope software, these devices offer an ideal, cost-effective package for design, research, test, education, service, and repair.

The compact design of the PicoScope 6000E (9.7 x 7.6 x 2.5 inches) means that it fits easily on any workbench, whether in the laboratory or at home. 

Also in the Picoscope 6000 Series is the PicoScope 6407 - a compact USB plug-in device that turns any PC into a high-speed 4-channel digitizer. The PicoScope 6407 differs from the other PC scopes in the 6000 range in that it has high-bandwidth 50ohm inputs with fixed �100mV input ranges and SMA connectors. Larger input signals can be accommodated, however, with the use of external attenuators (see accessories).With a PicoScope 6407 you can easily digitize a 1GHz  sinewave with a timing resolution of 200ps.