Pico Technology PicoScope 5000 Series 5242D MSO [PQ149] 60MHz 2-Channel Mixed Signal Oscilloscope

The PicoScope 5242D MSO is a 2-channel 60MHz flexible resolution oscilloscope with a memory size of 128MSa (8-bit)/ 64MSa (12-bit+) with built-in MSO digital debug capabilities.

The 16 digital channels, in addition to the 2 analog channels, enable accurately time-correlated display of both analog and digital channels. Pico’s breakthrough ADC technology offer high speed and high resolution, switchable from 8 to 16 bits in one oscilloscope to suit a variety of needs and applications.  To handle a wide range of test signals, the PicoScope 5242D’s hardware employs multiple high-resolution input ADCs in various time-interleaved and parallel combinations to optimize either the sampling rate to 1GS/s at 8 bits, the resolution to 16 bits at 62.5MS/s, or other intermediate combinations.  Select whichever is the most appropriate hardware resolution for the requirements of each measurement!  All of the 5000D models have a SuperSpeed USB 3.0 port for connection to a PC, and the oscilloscope's internal AWG signal generator can generate waveforms with a number of built-in functions and user-defined arbitrary waveforms. This built in 14-bit 200MSa/s arbitrary waveform generator allows the creation and adaptation of arbitrary waveforms from a PC-based editor - or import signals from existing oscilloscope traces, load a waveform from a spreadsheet, etc.  The AWG can also act as a function generator with a range of standard output signals, including sine, square, triangle, DC level, white noise and PRBS. As well as the basic controls to set level, offset and frequency, more advanced controls allow you to sweep over a range of frequencies.

An External trigger input uses dedicated circuitry in combination with a software-configurable threshold to detect a trigger signal. This leaves the analog channels free for viewing signals.  18 serial decoding protocols are included as standard in the PicoSoft software (provided free), and the signal screen refresh rate is 130,000 waveforms per second.

The PicoScope 5000D Series oscilloscopes have waveform capture memories ranging from 128 to 512 million samples – many times larger than traditional benchtop scopes. Deep memory enables the capture of long-duration waveforms at maximum sampling speed. In fact, the PicoScope 5000D Series can capture waveforms over 500ms long with 1ns resolution. In contrast, the same 50ms waveform captured by an oscilloscope with a 10MSa memory would have just 50ns resolution.These flexible resolution oscilloscopes are high-specification real-time

measuring instruments that connect to the USB port of your computer and use the PicoScope software to work as oscilloscopes and spectrum analyzers. Portability, resolution, deep memory, fast sampling rates and high bandwidth come as standard.