Picoscope 3417e and 3418e High Bandwidth Oscilloscope. Up to 500 MHz

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PicoScope 3417E - [PQ347] or 3418E - [PQ349] inputs, outputs and indicators

Channel trace color indicators Rear Panel SuperSpeed USB-Connection

The colored indicators next to each BNC input channel automatically adapt when you customize trace colors displayed on the screen — aiding channel identification for error-free waveform interpretation.

PicoScope 7 - the best keeps getting better

Discover why PicoScope 7 PC oscilloscope software outshines traditional benchtop oscilloscopes and why it's the choice for professionals seeking performance, efficiency and value. Comprehensive features at no extra cost: PicoScope 7 includes all essential features as standard, eliminating the need for costly upgrades. Unlike benchtop oscilloscopes that charge extra for options like serial decoders, PicoScope 7 offers 40 decoders included right from the start. Often, it's more cost-effective to purchase a new PicoScope than to buy just a single serial protocol upgrade for an old benchtop. Superior display and processing power: leverage the power of your existing computer's high-resolution display to view up to 10x more detail than a typical benchtop scope. The advanced processing capabilities of your PC allow PicoScope 7 to deliver sophisticated mathematics, measurement, and analysis tools that surpass the capabilities of traditional oscilloscopes. Seamless connectivity and data management: connecting PicoScope to your PC simplifies saving, sharing, and manipulating data. Effortlessly integrate results into reports, work offline, and share data with colleagues—even those without a PicoScope. This convenience streamlines your workflow and enhances collaboration. Intuitive and customizable user interface: PicoScope 7 features a user-friendly interface that works seamlessly with both mouse and touchscreen inputs. Available on Windows, Mac, and Linux, you can personalize your workspace by naming channels, choosing color schemes and themes, defining custom probes, pinning frequently used tools for quick access, and selecting from 27 languages. Future-proof investment: with over 30 years of providing free software updates and feature enhancements, PicoScope ensures your investment remains valuable. Buy the hardware once, and enjoy continuous improvements and new features year after year. Choose PicoScope 7 for a comprehensive, powerful, and future-proof oscilloscope solution that enhances your productivity and ensures you stay ahead of the curve. More information on PicoScope 7
THE oscilloscope for serial decoding Experience unparalleled serial data analysis with PicoScope USB oscilloscope software, now featuring the capability to decode 40 different protocols, including I2C, SPI, UART, CAN, and many more (see the image for full details). The PicoScope 3000E Series, with its deep memory and high sampling rates, is perfect for complex serial data analysis, enabling simultaneous decoding of multiple protocols. Key Features: Comprehensive protocol support: Decode multiple different protocols currently using all the channels of your oscilloscope, providing extensive versatility for complex applications. High-resolution data visualization: View decoded data in hex, binary, decimal, or ASCII directly beneath the waveform on a common time axis. Error frames are highlighted in red for quick identification and can be zoomed in for a detailed investigation of noise or signal integrity issues. Detailed table format: See a comprehensive list of decoded frames, including all data, flags, and identifiers. Use filtering to focus on specific frames or search for frames with particular properties. The statistics option gives deeper insight into the physical layer, revealing frame times and voltage levels. Click any frame in the table to zoom into its corresponding waveform. Export and offline analysis: Easily export table view data for offline viewing and analysis, ensuring you can work with your data whenever and wherever you need. Link file feature: Accelerate your analysis by cross-referencing values to human-readable text. Discover why PicoScope is the preferred choice for professionals demanding precision and efficiency in serial decoding. More information on Serial decoding
Carry your electronics lab with you
Say goodbye to bulky oscilloscopes. The PicoScope 3000E Series offers high-performance in a sleek, lightweight, portable design. In the lab it takes up less space than a benchtop while offering all the advantages of using the high-resolution display, processing power, storage and connectivity of your PC. For the engineer on the move you can now carry your scope in your laptop bag ready for use on-site. No need to travel to the lab, the lab travels with you.
Arbitrary waveform and function generator
The PicoScope 3000E models come with a sophisticated built-in function generator. This generator is not limited to standard waveforms like sine and square but also supports a wide range of additional waveforms, including Gaussian and PRBS. With a frequency range from 100 μHz to 20 MHz and frequency sweeping capabilities, it is ideal for use with the spectrum analyzer function to test amplifier and filter responses. All models also include a 14-bit 200 MS/s arbitrary waveform generator (AWG). AWG waveforms can be created or edited using the built-in editor, imported from oscilloscope traces or imported from a CSV file. Advanced tools allow one or more cycles of a waveform to be output when various conditions are met, such as the scope triggering, an event on the aux input, a mask test failing or a measurement being outside set limits. More information on AWG

Features

THE deep memory oscilloscope

PicoScope 3000E Series oscilloscopes have waveform capture memories of up to 2 billion samples – many times larger than competing scopes. Deep memory enables the capture of long-duration waveforms at maximum sampling speed which is invaluable for capturing signals ranging from fast serial data through to complex power supply start-up sequences. The waveform shows a capture of 500 million samples with a zoom factor of 10,000 to reveal details of individual pulses.

As well as long, deep captures PicoScope lets you divide the capture memory up to 40,000 segments. You can set up a trigger condition to store a separate capture in each segment, with as little as 700 ns dead time between captures (an effective rate of 2 million waveforms per second). This is ideal for applications such as laser and radar where there are often long gaps between pulses.

Whether you have captured one long waveform or thousands of shorter ones, PicoScope has an array of powerful tools to manage and examine all of this data.

Other functions included such as mask limit testing and color persistence mode, PicoScope software enables you to zoom into your waveform up to 100 million times. The Zoom window allows you to easily control the size and location of the zoom area. Other tools, such as the waveform buffer, serial decoding and hardware acceleration work with the deep memory, making the PicoScope 3000E Series a powerful, compact package. More information on Deep memory

Waveform buffer and navigator

Have you ever seen a glitch on an oscilloscope screen but by the time you stop the scope it has gone? PicoScope can store the last 40,000 oscilloscope or spectrum waveforms in its circular waveform buffer, effectively letting you turn back time to find that elusive waveform.

The buffer navigator provides an efficient way of viewing, navigating and searching through waveforms. The PicoScope 3000E also features hardware-based trigger time stamping so the gap between each waveform is displayed in high resolution.

Tools such as mask limit testing and measurement limits can also be used to scan through each waveform in the buffer automatically with options to only show those that pass or fail - no need to search for that needle in a haystack.

More advanced tools such as serial decoding and DeepMeasure work to analyze data packets or events across all waveform buffers in the deep memory, making the PicoScope 3000E Series some of the most capable oscilloscopes on the market.

Hardware acceleration engine (HAL4)

Some oscilloscopes struggle when you enable deep memory; the screen update rate slows and the controls become unresponsive. The PicoScope 3000E Series avoids this limitation with the use of a dedicated fourth-generation hardware acceleration (HAL4) engine inside the oscilloscope.

Its massively parallel design effectively creates the waveform image to be displayed on the PC screen and allows the continuous capture and display to the screen of up to 2 billion samples every second.

The hardware acceleration engine eliminates any concerns about the USB connection or PC processor performance being a bottleneck.

THE oscilloscope for measurements and math

Measurements: Introduction

PicoScope 7 provides dozens of automated measurements both for the oscilloscope and spectrum, not just standard ones like frequency but more complex ones such as overshoot, edge count, phase, power factor, THD and SINAD. Statistics can be displayed to show the Average, Mean, Maximum, Minimum, Standard Deviation and a count of the number of waveforms. Measurements are highly configurable allowing you to measure across the whole waveform, between rulers or just a single cycle.

Measurements: pass/failure limits

PicoScope software offers pass/failure limits for any measurement. This gives a visual indication within the measurement window whenever the measurement result goes above or below a specified value. Pass/failure limits can be combined with actions to immediately alert the user or execute other actions when a measurement threshold has been exceeded, either above or below set limits. By filtering the waveform buffer to show only those waveforms failing a measurement limit, you can quickly identify points of interest out of the thousands of waveforms captured in the deep memory of your PicoScope.

Dark Background Screen showing deep measurement

Measurements: logging (trending)

PicoScope allows the results of measurements to be recorded in a file for later analysis. The resulting log can be used to characterize the performance of a circuit over medium or long-duration tests – such as when evaluating drift due to thermal and other effects, or can be used to check functionality against an externally controlled variable such as supply voltage.

DeepMeasureTM - One waveform, millions of measurements

The measurement of waveform pulses and cycles is key to verifying the performance of electrical and electronic devices.

DeepMeasure delivers automatic measurements of important waveform parameters, such as pulse width, rise time and voltage, for every individual cycle in the captured waveforms. Up to a million cycles can be displayed with each triggered acquisition or combined across multiple acquisitions. Results can be easily sorted, analyzed and correlated with the waveform display, or exported as a .CSV file or spreadsheet for further analysis.

For example, use DeepMeasure with PicoScope’s rapid trigger mode to capture 40 000 pulses and quickly find those with the largest or smallest amplitude, or use your scope’s deep memory to record a million cycles of one waveform and export the rise time of every single edge for statistical analysis.

Math channel and filters

Math channels add additional traces to your waveform. You can select simple functions such as addition and inversion with a click, or you can use the equation editor to take things to the next level and create functions involving math, trigonometry, exponentials, logarithms, statistics, integrals and derivatives.

Math channels also provide multiple filter options (lowpass, highpass, bandpass and bandstop) to allow for example both the raw view of a signal and one with a lowpass filter added to be viewed at the same time.

Many measurement functions are available as math channels which combined with deep memory captures reveal new details about your signal - you can plot changing frequency, duty cycle or phase as extra channels alongside the originals.

Display up to eight real or calculated channels in each scope view. If you run out of space, just open another scope view and add more. More information on Math channels

Light Background Screen Shot Math Channel

Power measurements and math

PicoScope software offers a suite of power measurements (with more in development) and associated power math channels which include:

• True power
• Reactive power
• Apparent power
• Power factor

With PicoScope you can graph your power measurements using math channels or display continuous values or statistics on screen using the measurements option. More information on Power measurements

Software

MASKS
Mask limit testing allows you to compare live signals against known good signals, and is designed for production and debugging environments. Simply capture a known good signal and use it to auto-generate a mask and then measure the system under test. PicoScope will check for mask violations and perform pass/fail testing, capture intermittent glitches and can show a failure count and other statistics in the Measurements window. Masks can be saved in a library for future use, and exported/ imported to share with other PicoScope users. More information on Masks
TRIGGERING Many digital oscilloscopes still use a trigger architecture based on analog comparators. This causes time and amplitude errors that cannot always be calibrated out and often limits the trigger sensitivity at high bandwidths. In 1991 Pico pioneered the use of fully digital triggering using the actual digitized data. This technique reduces trigger errors and allows our oscilloscopes to trigger on the smallest signals, even at the full bandwidth. Trigger levels and hysteresis can be set with high precision and resolution.
	The PicoScope 3000E Series offers a set of advanced trigger types including pulse width, runt pulse, windowed, rise/fall time, logic and dropout. The logic trigger function also allows you to trigger on combinations of edge or window triggers on any of the analog inputs, for example to trigger edges on channel A only when channel B is also high, or to trigger when any of the four channels goes outside a specified voltage range. More information on Advanced Triggers
PERSISTANCE MODE PicoScope’s persistence mode options allow you to see old and new data superimposed, making it easy to spot glitches and dropouts and estimate their relative frequency – useful for displaying and interpreting complex analog signals such as video waveforms and amplitude modulated signals. Color-coding and intensity-grading show which areas are stable and which are intermittent. Choose between Fast, Time or Frequency Persistence types and customizations within each. An important specification to understand when evaluating oscilloscope performance, especially in persistence mode, is the waveform update rate, which is expressed as waveforms per second. While the sampling rate indicates how frequently the oscilloscope samples the input signal within one waveform or cycle, the waveform update rate refers to how quickly an oscilloscope acquires waveforms. Oscilloscopes with high waveform update rates provide better visual insight into signal behavior and dramatically increase the probability that the oscilloscope will quickly capture transient anomalies such as jitter, runt pulses and glitches – that you may not even know exist. The PicoScope 3000E Series’ HAL4 hardware acceleration can achieve update rates of 300 000 waveforms per second in fast persistence mode.
ACTIONS and ALARMS PicoScope can be programmed to execute actions when certain events occur. Events that can trigger an action include measurement and mask limit failures, trigger events and buffers full. The actions that PicoScope can execute include: • Stop the capture • Save waveform to disk in your choice of format including .csv, .png and .matlab • Play a sound • Trigger signal generator or AWG • Run an external application or script • Export serial-decoded data to a file on disk Actions, coupled with mask limit testing, help create a powerful and time-saving waveform monitoring tool. Capture a known good signal, auto-generate a mask around it and then use the actions to automatically save any waveform (complete with a time/date stamp) that does not meet specification.
Custom probes in PicoScope oscilloscope software The custom probes feature allows you to correct for gain, attenuation, offsets and nonlinearities in probes, sensors or transducers that you connect to the oscilloscope. This could be used to scale the output of a current probe so that it correctly displays amperes. A more advanced use would be to scale the output of a nonlinear temperature sensor using the table lookup function. Definitions for standard Pico-supplied oscilloscope probes and current clamps are included. User-created probes may be saved for later use.
PicoLog 6 software & PicoLog cloud PicoScope 3000E Series oscilloscopes are also supported by the PicoLog 6 data logging software, allowing you to view and record signals on multiple units in one capture. PicoLog 6 allows sample rates of up to 1 kS/s per channel, and is ideal for long-term data logging. You can also use PicoLog 6 to view data from your oscilloscope alongside a data logger or other device. For example, you could measure voltage and current with your PicoScope and plot both against temperature using a TC-08 thermocouple data logger. As well as storing data to local disk you can stream data live to PicoLog Cloud both for backup and to allow secure remote viewing of your data from any web browser.
PicoSDK - write your own apps Our free software development kit, PicoSDK, allows you to write your own software and includes drivers for Windows, macOS and Linux. Example code supplied on our GitHub organization page shows how to interface to third-party software packages such as National Instruments LabVIEW and MathWorks MATLAB, as well as programming languages including C/C , C# and Python. More information on PicoSDK Among other features, the drivers support data streaming, a mode that captures continuous gap-free data directly to your PC or host computer at rates of over 300 MS/s, so you are not limited by the size of your scope’s capture memory. Sampling rates in streaming mode are subject to PC specifications and application loading. PicoScope 3000E Series psospa API SDK documentation There is also an active community of PicoScope users who share both code and whole applications on our Test and Measurement Forum and the PicoApps section of the website.

Specifications

PicoScope 3000E Series Specifications
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PicoScope 3000E Series Specifications

PicoScope model	PicoScope 3417E and 3417E MSO	PicoScope 3418E and 3418E MSO
Vertical (analog channels)
Input channels	4
Bandwidth (–3 dB)	350 MHz	500 MHz
Rise time (10% to 90%, −2 dB full scale)	1.2 ns	925 ps
Selectable bandwidth limit 8-bit mode	20, 50, 100, 200, 350 MHz	20, 50, 100, 200, 350, 500 MHz
Selectable bandwidth limit 10-bit mode	20, 50, 100, 200 MHz
Vertical resolution	8 bits, 10 bits
Enhanced vertical resolution (software)	Hardware resolution 4 bits
Input connector	BNC(f)
Input characteristics 50 Ω	50 Ω ±2 %
Input characteristics 1 MΩ	1 MΩ ±1 % ∥ 13 pF ±2 pF
Input coupling 50 Ω	DC
Input coupling 1 MΩ	AC/DC
Input sensitivity 50 Ω	1 mV/div to 1 V/div (10 vertical divisions)
Input sensitivity 1 MΩ	1 mV/div to 4 V/div (10 vertical divisions)
Input ranges (full scale) 50 Ω	±5 mV[1], ±10 mV[2], ±20 mV[3], ±50 mV, ±100 mV, ±200 mV, ±500 mV, ±1 V, ±2 V, ±5 V
Input ranges (full scale) 1 MΩ	±5 mV[1], ±10 mV[2], ±20 mV[3], ±50 mV, ±100 mV, ±200 mV, ±500 mV, ±1 V, ±2 V, ±5 V, ±10 V, ±20 V
[1] ±5 mV only available up to 100 MHz [2] ±10 mV only available up to 200 MHz [3] ±20 mV only available up to 350 MHz
DC gain accuracy	±(1% of signal 1 LSB)
DC offset accuracy	±(2% of full scale 200 µV)
LSB size (quantization step size) 8-bit mode	< 0.4% of input range
LSB size (quantization step size) 10-bit mode	< 0.1% of input range
Analog offset range (vertical position adjustment)	±250 mV (±5 mV to ±200 mV ranges) ±2.5 V (±500 mV to ±2 V ranges) ±5 V (±5 V range, 50 Ω input) ±20 V (±5 V to ±20 V ranges, 1 MΩ input)
Analog offset control accuracy	±1% of offset setting, additional to DC accuracy above
Overvoltage protection 1 MΩ	±100 V (DC AC peak) up to 10 kHz
Overvoltage protection 50 Ω	5.5 V RMS max, ±20 V pk max

PicoScope model	3417E MSO	3418E MSO
Vertical (digital channels) - MSO only
Input channels	16 (2 logical ports of 8 channels each)
Input connector	2.54 mm pitch, 10 x 2 way connector
Maximum input frequency	100 MHz (200 Mbit/s)
Minimum detectable pulse width	5 ns
Threshold grouping	Two independent threshold controls. Port 0: D0 to D7, Port 1: D8 to D15
Threshold selection	TTL, CMOS, ECL, PECL, user-defined
Threshold range	±5 V
Threshold accuracy	< ±350 mV (inclusive of hysteresis)
Threshold hysteresis	< ±250 mV
Input dynamic range	±20 V
Minimum input voltage swing	500 mV peak to peak
Input impedance	200 kΩ ± 2% \|\| 8 pF ± 2 pF
Channel-to-channel skew	2 ns, typical
Minimum input slew rate	10 V/µs
Overvoltage protection	±50 V (DC AC peak) up to 100 kHz

PicoScope model		All non-MSO and MSO 3000E models
Horizontal
Maximum sampling rate (real time)		8-bit mode, analog channels	8-bit mode, digital channels[4]	10-bit mode, analog channels	10-bit mode, digital channels[4]
	1 channel[5]	5 GS/s	1.25 GS/s	2.5 GS/s	1.25 GS/s
	2 channels	2.5 GS/s	1.25 GS/s	1.25 GS/s	1.25 GS/s
	3 or 4 channels	1.25 GS/s	1.25 GS/s	625 MS/s	625 MS/s
	>4 channels	625 MS/s	625 MS/s	312.5 MS/s	312.5 MS/s
Max. sampling rate, continuous USB streaming into PC memory[6] (PicoScope 7)		On USB 3.0 port		On USB 2.0 port
	1 channel	~50 MS/s		~10 MS/s
	2 channels	~25 MS/s		~5 MS/s
	3 or 4 channels	~12 MS/s		~2 MS/s
	>4 channels	~6 MS/s		~1 MS/s
Max. sampling rate, continuous USB streaming into PC memory[6] (PicoSDK)		On USB 3.0 port, 8-bit resolution	On USB 3.0 port, 10-bit resolution	On USB 2.0 port, 8-bit resolution	On USB 2.0 port, 10-bit resolution
	1 channel	~300 MS/s	~150 MS/s	~30 MS/s	~15 MS/s
	2 channels	~150 MS/s	~75 MS/s	~15 MS/s	~8 MS/s
	3 or 4 channels	~75 MS/s	~38 MS/s	~8 MS/s	~4 MS/s
	>4 channels	~38 MS/s	~18 MS/s	~4 MS/s	~2 MS/s
Max. sampling rate, USB streaming of downsampled data[7] (PicoSDK)		8-bit resolution		10-bit resolution
	1 channel	1 GS/s		500 MS/s
	2 channels	500 MS/s		250 MS/s
	3 or 4 channels	250 MS/s		125 MS/s
	>4 channels	125 MS/s		62.5 MS/s
[4] MSO models only [5] Channel means the total number of enabled analog channels and/or 8-bit digital ports. [6] Max. sampling rates in streaming mode are dependent on the host computer performance and workload. [7] Downsampled (min/max/average/decimated) data returned continuously to PC during streaming at up to USB data bandwidth. Raw data available to read from device buffer after streaming is completed.
Capture memory (per channel)		8-bit resolution		10-bit resolution
	1 channel	2 GS		1 GS
	2 channels	1 GS		500 MS
	3 or 4 channels	512 MS		256 MS
	>4 channels	256 MS		128 MS
Maximum single capture duration at maximum sampling rate (PicoScope 7)		200 ms
Maximum single capture duration at maximum sampling rate (PicoSDK)		400 ms
Capture memory (continuous streaming) (PicoScope 7)		250 MS
Capture memory (continuous streaming) (PicoSDK)		Buffering using full device memory, no limit on total duration of capture
Waveform buffer (number of segments) (PicoScope 7)		40 000
Waveform buffer (number of segments) (PicoSDK)		2 000 000
Timebase ranges		1 ns/div to 5000 s/div
Initial timebase accuracy		±5 ppm
Timebase drift		±1 ppm/year
ADC sampling		Simultaneous sampling on all active channels

PicoScope model	3417E and 3417E MSO	3418E and 3418E MSO
Dynamic performance (typical)
Crosstalk	Better than 500:1 (from DC to bandwidth of victim channel, equal voltage ranges)
Harmonic distortion (10 MHz, −2 dBfs input). 8-bit	Better than –50 dB on ±50 mV to ±20 V ranges
Harmonic distortion (10 MHz, −2 dBfs input). 10 bit	Better than –60 dB on ±50 mV to ±20 V ranges
SFDR (10 MHz, −2 dBfs input). 8-bit	Better than 50 dB on ±50 mV to ±20 V ranges
SFDR (10 MHz, −2 dBfs input). 10-bit	Better than 60 dB on ±50 mV to ±20 V ranges
RMS noise	Click to see table
Linearity	≤ 2 LSB 8-bit mode ≤ 4 LSB 10-bit mode
Bandwidth flatness	( 0.5 dB, –3 dB) from DC to full bandwidth
Low frequency flatness	< ±6% (or ±0.5 dB) from DC to 1 MHz

PicoScope model	3417E and 3417E MSO	3418E and 3418E MSO
Triggering
Source	Any analog channel, AUX I/O trigger MSO models: digital D0-D15
Trigger modes	None, auto, repeat, single, rapid (segmented memory)
Advanced trigger types (analog channels)	Edge (rising, falling, rising-or-falling), window (entering, exiting, entering-or-exiting), pulse width (positive or negative or either pulse), window pulse width (time inside, outside window or either), level dropout (including high/low or either), window dropout (including inside, outside or either), interval, runt (positive or negative), transition time (rise/fall), logic Logic trigger capabilities: AND/OR/NAND/NOR/XOR/XNOR function of any trigger sources (analog channels and aux input) User-defined Boolean function of any combination of analog channels plus aux input (PicoSDK only)
Trigger sensitivity (analog channels)	Digital triggering provides 1 LSB accuracy up to full bandwidth of scope with adjustable hysteresis
Advanced trigger types (digital channels)	Edge (rising, falling, rising-or-falling), pulse width (positive or negative or either pulse), level dropout (including high/low or either), interval, digital pattern (combination of any digital input states qualified by one edge), logic (mixed signal)
Pre-trigger capture	Up to 100% of capture size
Post-trigger delay - PicoScope 7	Zero to > 4x109 samples, settable in 1 sample steps (delay range at 5 GS/s of 0.8 s in 200 ps steps)
Post-trigger delay - PicoSDK	Zero to > 1x1012 samples, settable in 1 sample steps (delay range at 5 GS/s of > 200 s in 200 ps steps)
Trigger holdoff by time	Delay re-arming the trigger after each trigger event by a user-set time up to 4 x 109 sample intervals.
Rapid trigger mode rearm time	< 700 ns on fastest timebase
Maximum trigger rate - PicoScope 7	40 000 waveforms in 20 ms
Maximum trigger rate - PicoSDK	Number of waveforms up to memory segment count, at a rate of 2 million waveforms per second.
Waveform update rate	Up to 300 000 waveforms per second in PicoScope 7 fast persistence mode
Trigger time-stamping	Each waveform is timestamped with time from previous waveform, with sample-interval resolution.

PicoScope model	PicoScope 3417E and 3417E MSO	PicoScope 3418E and 3418E MSO
Auxiliary trigger
Trigger types (triggering scope)	Edge, pulse width, dropout, interval, logic
Trigger types (triggering AWG)	Rising edge, falling edge, gate high, gate low
Input bandwidth	> 10 MHz
Input characteristics	3.3 V CMOS Hi-Z input, DC coupled
Input threshold	Fixed threshold, low < 1 V, high > 2.3 V suitable for 3.3 V CMOS
Input hysteresis	1.3 V max (VIH < 2.3 V, VIL > 1 V)
Auxiliary output function	Trigger output
Output voltage	3.3 V CMOS (VOH > 3.2 V, VOL < 0.1 V into Hi-Z)
Output impedance	Approx. 270 Ω
Output rise time	Measured directly at BNC: < 15 ns
Coupling	DC
Overvoltage protection	±20 V peak max
Connector type	BNC(f)

PicoScope model	PicoScope 3417E and 3417E MSO	PicoScope 3418E and 3418E MSO
Function generator
Standard output signals	Sine, square, triangle, DC voltage, ramp up, ramp down, sinc, Gaussian, half-sine
Output frequency range	100 μHz to 20 MHz
Output frequency accuracy	Oscilloscope timebase accuracy ± output frequency resolution
Output frequency resolution	< 1 μHz
Sweep modes	Up, down, dual with selectable start/stop frequencies and increments
Triggering	Free-run, or from 1 to 1 billion counted waveform cycles or frequency sweeps. Triggered from scope trigger, aux trigger or manually.
Gating	Waveform output can be gated (paused) via aux trigger input or software
Pseudorandom output signals	White noise, selectable amplitude and offset within output voltage range Pseudorandom binary sequence (PRBS), selectable high and low levels within output voltage range, selectable bit rate up to 20 Mb/s
Output voltage range	±2.0 V into Hi-Z (±1.0 V into 50 Ω)
Output voltage adjustment	Signal amplitude and offset adjustable in approx. 0.3 mV steps within overall ± 2 V range
DC accuracy	±1 % of full scale, into Hi-Z load
Amplitude flatness	< 1.5 dB to 20 MHz, typical, sine wave into 50 Ω
SFDR	> 70 dB, 10 kHz full scale sine wave
Output resistance	50 Ω ±1%
Overvoltage protection	±20 V peak max
Connector type	Front-panel BNC

PicoScope model	3417E and 3417E MSO	3418E and 3418E MSO
Arbitrary waveform generator
Update rate	200 MS/s
Buffer size	32 kS
Vertical resolution	14 bits (output step size 0.3 mV approx.)
Bandwidth (−3 dB)	> 20 MHz
Rise time (10% to 90%)	< 10 ns (50 Ω load)

PicoScope model	3417E and 3417E MSO	3418E and 3418E MSO
Spectrum analyzer
Frequency range	DC to 350 MHz	DC to 500 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

PicoScope model	3417E and 3417E MSO	3418E and 3418E MSO
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, coupler, top, base, amplitude, positive overshoot, negative overshoot, phase, delay, moving, deskew, true power, apparent power, reactive power, power factor, area AC, positive area AC, negative area AC, abs area AC, area DC, positive area DC, negative area DC, abs area DC
Operands	A to D (input channels), D0-D15 (digital channels), T (time), reference waveforms, pi, constants

PicoScope model	3417E and 3417E MSO	3418E and 3418E MSO
Automatic measurements
Scope mode	Absolute area at AC/DC, AC RMS, amplitude, apparent power, area at AC/DC, base, crest factor, cycle time, DC average, DC power, duty cycle, edge count, fall time, falling edge count, falling rate, frequency, high pulse width, low pulse width, maximum, minimum, negative area at AC, negative area at DC, negative duty cycle, negative overshoot, peak to peak, phase, positive area at AC, positive area at DC, positive overshoot, power factor, reactive power, rise time, rising edge count, rising rate, top, true power, true RMS
Spectrum mode	Frequency at peak, amplitude at peak, average amplitude at peak, total power, THD%, THD dB, THD N, SINAD, SNR, IMD
Statistics	Minimum, maximum, average, standard deviation

PicoScope model	3417E and 3417E MSO	3418E and 3418E MSO
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

PicoScope model	3417E and 3417E MSO	3418E and 3418E MSO
Serial decoding
Protocols	10BASE-T1S, 1-Wire, ARINC 429, BroadRReach, CAN, CAN FD, CAN J1939, CAN XL, DALI, DCC, Differential Manchester, DMX512, Ethernet 10BASE-T, Extended UART, Fast Ethernet 100BASE-TX, FlexRay, I2C, I2S, I3C BASIC v1.0, LIN, Manchester, MIL-STD-1553, MODBUS ASCII, MODBUS RTU, NMEA-0183, Parallel Bus, PMBus, PS/2, PSI5 (Sensor), Quadrature, RS232/UART, SBS Data, SENT Fast, SENT Slow, SENT SPC, SMBus, SPI-MISO/MOSI, SPI-SDIO, USB (1.0/1.1), Wind Sensor

PicoScope model	3417E and 3417E MSO	3418E and 3418E MSO
Mask limit testing
Statistics	Pass/fail, failure count, total count
Mask creation	Auto-generated from waveform or imported from file

PicoScope model	3417E and 3417E MSO	3418E and 3418E MSO
Display
Display modes	Scope, XY scope, persistence, spectrum
Interpolation	Linear or sin(x)/x
Persistence modes	Time, frequency, fast
Output file formats	csv, mat, pdf, png, psdata, pssettings, txt
Output functions	Copy to clipboard, print

PicoScope model	3417E and 3417E MSO	3418E and 3418E MSO
Data transfer
Captured waveform data USB transfer rate to PC	On USB 3.0, PC dependent: 8-bit mode: up to 360 MS/s; 10-bit mode: up to 180 MS/s On USB 2.0, PC dependent: 8-bit mode: up to 40 MS/s; 10-bit mode: up to 20 MS/s
Hardware accelerated waveform display rate	Hardware acceleration enables over 2 GS of data to be displayed on screen per second (8-bit mode, 4 channels, 250 MS per channel at max sample rate)

PicoScope model	3417E and 3417E MSO	3418E and 3418E MSO
General specifications
PC connectivity	USB 3.0 SuperSpeed (USB 2.0 compatible)
PC connector type	USB 3.0 Type C
Power requirement	Powered from single USB Type-C 3 A port or from USB port plus external Type-C PSU (5V, 3A)
USB cables included	Type C-A 0.9 m and Type C 1.8 m
Status indicators	RGB LED per BNC connector plus power and status
Thermal management	Automatic fan speed control for low noise
Dimensions	221 x 173 x 30 mm
Weight	< 0.7 kg
Ambient temperature range - Operating	0 to 40 °C
Ambient temperature range - For quoted accuracy	15 to 30 °C after 20-minute warm-up
Ambient temperature range - Storage	–20 to 60 °C
Humidity range - Operating	5 to 80 %RH non-condensing
Humidity range - Storage	5 to 95 %RH non-condensing
Altitude	Up to 2000 m
Pollution degree	EN 61010 pollution degree 2: “only nonconductive pollution occurs except that occasionally a temporary conductivity caused by condensation is expected”
Safety compliance	Designed to EN 61010-1
EMC compliance	Tested to EN 61326-1 and FCC Part 15 Subpart B
Environmental compliance	RoHS, REACH & WEEE
Warranty	5 years

PicoScope model	3417E and 3417E MSO	3418E and 3418E MSO
Software
Windows software (64-bit)[8]	PicoScope 7, PicoLog 6, PicoSDK (Users writing their own apps can find example programs for all platforms on the Pico Technology organization page on GitHub).
macOS software (64-bit)[8]	PicoScope 7, PicoLog 6 and PicoSDK
Linux software (64-bit)[8]	PicoScope 7 software and drivers, PicoLog 6 (including drivers) See Linux Software and Drivers to install drivers only
Raspberry Pi 4B & 5 (32-bit Raspberry Pi OS)[8]	PicoLog 6 (including drivers) See Linux Software and Drivers to install drivers only
[8] See the picotech.com/downloads page for more information.
Languages supported - PicoScope 7	English-US, English-UK, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, Spanish, French, Korean, Croatian, Italian, Hungarian, Netherlands Dutch, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese-Brazilian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovene, Serbian, Finnish, Swedish, Turkish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
Languages supported - PicoLog 6	Simplified Chinese, Dutch, English (UK), English (US), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish
PC requirements	Processor, memory and disk space: as required by the operating system Ports: USB 3.0 (recommended) or 2.0 (compatible)

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Documents

Documents for PicoScope 3000E Series
Title	Language	Issue	Size	Updated
PicoScope 3000E Series Data Sheet	English	1	8 Mb	June 2024 - Download
PicoScope 3000E Series User’s Guide	English	1	5	June 2024 - Download

Order your 3417E [PQ347] - 350 MHz Scope Kit Here:

Order your 3418E [PQ349] - 500 MHz Scope Kit Here:

3000E Accessory Pricing
P1053 500 MHz 10:1 passive BNC probe [Dual Pack] - TA562	P1053 500 MHz 10:1 passive BNC probe [Single Pack] - TA561
BNC adaptor for Pico TA562 probes (3.5mm)	P1033 350 MHz switchable passive probe BNC - single [TA536]
BNC Adaptor for TA375, TA386, TA536 5mm passive probes. [TA537]	Power supply, 5V 3A UK/EU/US/AUS USB-C output - [PS017]
USB Full featured Type-C Plug - Plug 1.8m/6ft Blue - [TA532]	USB 3.2 type -C Plug - Type A Plug 0.9m/3ft Blue - [TA534]

US Price list here: https://www.interworldna.com/PriceLists/pricelist_main.php?catName=Pico Technology&ct=2
CDN Price List here: https://www.interworldna.com/PriceLists/pricelist_main.php?catName=Pico Technology&ct=1

PicoScope 3417e & 3418e Series 350 or 500 MHz

5 GS/s digital USB oscilloscope

[PQ347 & PQ349]

Order your 3417E [PQ347] - 350 MHz Scope Kit Here:

The ground-breaking PicoScope 3000E Series

Small, light and portable

High bandwidth, high sampling rate, deep memory

PicoScope 3417E - [PQ347] or 3418E - [PQ349] inputs, outputs and indicators

PicoScope 7 - the best keeps getting better

THE oscilloscope for serial decoding

Carry your electronics lab with you

Arbitrary waveform and function generator

THE deep memory oscilloscope

Waveform buffer and navigator

Hardware acceleration engine (HAL4)

THE oscilloscope for measurements and math

Measurements: Introduction

Measurements: pass/failure limits

Measurements: logging (trending)

DeepMeasureTM - One waveform, millions of measurements

Math channel and filters

Power measurements and math

MASKS

TRIGGERING

PERSISTANCE MODE

ACTIONS and ALARMS

Custom probes in PicoScope oscilloscope software

PicoLog 6 software & PicoLog cloud

PicoSDK - write your own apps

PicoScope 3000E Series Specifications
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PicoScope 3000E Series Specifications

Documents for PicoScope 3000E Series