PicoScope 2000 Series oscilloscopes

Advanced triggers

The PicoScope 2000 Series offers an industry-leading set of advanced triggers

including pulse width, windowed and dropout.

The digital trigger available on MSO models allows you to trigger the scope

when any or all of the 16 digital inputs match a user-defined pattern. You can

specify a condition for each channel individually, or set up a pattern for all

channels at once using a hexadecimal or binary value.

You can also use the logic trigger to combine the digital trigger with an edge

or window trigger on any of the analog inputs, for example to trigger on data

values in a clocked parallel bus.

Digital triggering architecture

In 1991, Pico Technology pioneered the use of digital triggering and precision hysteresis using the

actual digitized data. Traditionally, digital oscilloscopes have used an analog trigger architecture based

on comparators, which can cause time and amplitude errors that cannot always be calibrated out.

Additionally, the use of comparators can often limit the trigger sensitivity at high bandwidths and can

create a long trigger rearm delay.

Pico’s technique of fully digital triggering reduces trigger errors and allows our oscilloscopes to trigger

on the smallest signals, even at the full bandwidth, so you can set trigger levels and hysteresis with high

precision and resolution.

The digital trigger architecture also reduces the rearm delay. Combined with the segmented memory, this

enables you to use rapid triggering to capture 10 000 waveforms in 10 ms in 8-bit mode.

Custom probes

The custom probes feature allows you to correct

for gain, attenuation, offsets and nonlinearities

in probes, transducers and other sensors, and to

measure quantities other than voltages (such as

current, power or temperature).

Definitions for standard Pico-supplied probes

are built in, but you can also create your own

using linear scaling or even an interpolated data

table, and save them for later use.