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Ultra-deep-memory, high-performance
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PicoScope 6000E Wins Test Product of the Year
Pico Technology’s PicoScope 6000E Series PC-based oscilloscope with optional FlexRes capability has won the prestigious Test Product of the Year trophy at the annual Elektra Awards hosted by Electronics Weekly.
The award was presented on March 25 at a virtual ceremony in the presence of an audience of leading industry professionals. The event has been a highlight of the industry calendar for 18 years, where leading figures from the electronics field gather to recognize the achievements of market leaders who are creating game-changing technologies that are helping to shape the future of the industry.
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PicoScope 6000E Series ultra-deep-memory oscilloscopes
Performance and functionality for debugging next-generation embedded systems
The PicoScope 6000E Series fixed-resolution and FlexRes oscilloscopes provide 8 to 12 bits of vertical resolution, with 500 MHz bandwidth and 5 GS/s sampling rate. Models with four or eight analog channels have the timing and amplitude resolution you need to reveal signal integrity issues such as glitches, runts, dropouts, noise, distortion and ringing. 16 digital MSO channels enable the debugging and verification of complex ECUs and FPGA-based designs. |
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- 8-bit to 12-bit FlexRes® ADCs
- A Choice of 4 or 8 analog channels
- Add 8 or 16 digital MSO Channels
- Up to 500 MHz bandwidth
- 200ms capture time at 5 GS/s
- Dual 5 GS/s ADCs
- Up to 4 GS capture memory
- 50 MHz 200 MS/s 14-bit AWG
- 300 000 waveforms per second update rate
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- Free PicoScope 6 and PicoSDK software
- 21 Serial protocol decoder/analysers included
- High-resolution timestamping of waveforms
- Over ten million DeepMeasure™ results per acquisition
- Advanced triggers: edge, pulse width, runt pulse, windowe pulse width, windows dropout
- USB 3.0 interface
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Typical applications
These oscilloscopes, with PicoScope 6 application software, are ideal for design engineers working with high-performance embedded systems, signal processing, power electronics, mechatronics and automotive designs, and for researchers and scientists working on multichannel high-performance experiments in physics labs, particle accelerators and similar facilities.
The PicoScope 6000E Application Programming Interface (API) provides programming access to the full set of advanced hardware features and can be used to develop diverse custom and OEM applications.
Best-in-class bandwidth, sampling rate and memory depth
Capture time at maximum sampling rate: 200 ms at 5 GS/s
With 500 MHz analog bandwidth complemented by a real-time sampling rate of 5 GS/s, the PicoScope 6000E Series scopes can display single-shot pulses with 200 ps time resolution.
The PicoScope 6000E Series gives you the deepest capture memory—up to 4 GS in total—available as standard on any oscilloscope at any price. This ultra-deep memory allows the oscilloscope to capture 200 ms waveforms at its maximum sampling rate of 5 GS/s.
The SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface and hardware acceleration ensure that the display is smooth and responsive even with long captures.
The PicoScope 6000E Series gives you the waveform memory, resolution and analysis tools that you need to perform stringent testing of high-performance electronics devices and next-generation embedded system designs.
Power, portability and performance
Conventional eight-channel benchtop mixed-signal oscilloscopes occupy too much space on the bench and are too costly for most engineers working on next-generation designs. PicoScope 6000E Series oscilloscopes are small and portable, while offering the high-performance specifications required by engineers in the lab or on the move.
These oscilloscopes offer 8 analog channels, plus an optional 8 or 16 digital channels with the plug-in 8-channel TA369 MSO pods. The flexible high‑resolution display options enable you to view and analyze each signal in detail.
Supported by the PicoScope 6 software, these devices offer an ideal, cost-effective package for many applications, including design, research, test, education, service, and repair. PicoScope 6 is included in the cost of your scope, available for free download, with free updates, and can be installed on as many PCs as you want, including to view/analyze data off-line without the scope.
High-end features as standard

Buying a PicoScope is not like making a purchase from other oscilloscope companies, where optional extras considerably increase the price. With our scopes, high-end features such as serial decoding, mask limit testing, advanced math channels, segmented memory, hardware-based timestamping and a signal generator are all included in the price.
To protect your investment, both the PC software and firmware inside the scope can be updated. Pico Technology has a long history of providing new features for free through software downloads. We deliver on our promises of future enhancements year after year. Users of our products reward us by becoming lifelong customers and frequently recommending us to their colleagues.
Powerful tools provide endless options
Your PicoScope is provided with many powerful tools to help you acquire and analyze waveforms. While these tools can be used on their own, the real power of PicoScope lies in the way they have been designed to work together.
As an example, the rapid trigger mode allows you to collect 10 000 waveforms in a few milliseconds with minimal dead time between them. Manually searching through these waveforms would be time-consuming, so just pick a waveform you are happy with and let the mask tools scan through for you. When done, the measurements will tell you how many have failed and the buffer navigator allows you to hide the good waveforms and just display the problem ones.
The screenshot here shows changing frequency versus time as a graph. Perhaps instead you want to plot changing duty cycle as a graph? How about outputting a waveform from the AWG and also automatically saving the waveform to disk when a trigger condition is met? With the power of PicoScope the possibilities are endless.
PicoScope 6000E Series with ultra-deep capture memory
With 500 MHz analog bandwidth complemented by a real-time sampling rate of 5 GS/s, the PicoScope 6000E Series scopes can display single-shot pulses with 200 ps time resolution.
The PicoScope 6000E Series gives you the deepest capture memory—up to 4 GS in total—available as standard on any oscilloscope at any price. This ultra-deep memory allows the oscilloscope to capture 200 ms waveforms at its maximum sampling rate of 5 GS/s.
The SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface and hardware acceleration ensure that the display is smooth and responsive even with long captures.
The PicoScope 6000E Series gives you the waveform memory, resolution and analysis tools that you need to perform stringent testing of today’s high‑performance embedded computers and next-generation embedded system designs. |
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Signal fidelity
Careful front-end design and shielding reduce noise, crosstalk and harmonic distortion. PicoScope 6000E Series oscilloscopes exhibit a dynamic performance of up to 60 dB SFDR.
With PicoScope 6, when you probe a circuit, you can trust in the waveform you see on the screen.
Deep capture memory
With 500 MHz analog bandwidth complemented by a real-time sampling rate of 5 GS/s, the PicoScope 6000E Series scopes can display single-shot pulses with 200 ps time resolution.
The PicoScope 6000E Series gives you the deepest capture memory—up to 4 GS in total—available as standard on any oscilloscope at any price. This ultra-deep memory allows the oscilloscope to capture a 200 ms waveform at its maximum sampling rate of 5 GS/s.
The SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface and hardware acceleration ensure that the display is smooth and responsive even with long captures.
The PicoScope 6000E Series gives you the waveform memory, resolution and analysis tools that you need to perform stringent testing of today’s high‑performance embedded computers and next-generation embedded system designs.
More information on deep-memory oscilloscopes >>
What is FlexRes?
Pico FlexRes flexible-resolution oscilloscopes allow you to reconfigure the scope hardware to optimize either the sampling rate or the resolution.
This means you can reconfigure the hardware to be either a fast (5 GS/s) 8-bit oscilloscope for looking at digital signals or a high-resolution 12-bit oscilloscope for audio work and other analog applications.
Whether you’re capturing and decoding fast digital signals or looking for distortion in sensitive analog signals, FlexRes oscilloscopes are the answer.
FlexRes is available on the PicoScope 6824E.
Resolution enhancement—a digital signal processing technique built into PicoScope 6— can further increase the effective vertical resolution of the scope to 16 bits.
More information on flexible resolution >>
FlexRes - how we do it
Most digital oscilloscopes gain their high sampling rates by interleaving multiple 8-bit ADCs. This interleaving process introduces errors that always make the dynamic performance worse than that of the individual ADC cores.
The FlexRes architecture employs multiple high-resolution ADCs at the input channels in different time-interleaved and parallel combinations to optimize either the sampling rate to 5 GS/s at 8 bits, the resolution to 12 bits at 1.25 GS/s, or other combinations in between.
The diagram shows one bank of four channels; the PicoScope 6824E has two banks.
Coupled with high signal-to-noise ratio amplifiers and a low-noise system architecture, FlexRes technology can capture and display signals up to 500 MHz with a high sampling rate, or lower-speed signals with 16 times more resolution than typical 8-bit oscilloscopes.
The PicoScope 6 software lets you choose between setting the resolution manually and leaving the scope in auto resolution mode, where the optimal resolution is used for the chosen settings.
Mixed-signal options
Most benchtop mixed-signal oscilloscopes give you a maximum of four analog channels and 16 digital inputs. When fitted with the optional 8-channel TA369 MSO pods, the PicoScope 6000E Series adds up to 16 high-performance digital channels to its eight analog channels, enabling you to accurately time-correlate analog and digital channels. Digital channel bandwidth is 500 MHz, equivalent to 1 Gb/s, and the input capacitance of only 3.5 pF minimizes loading on the device under test.
Digital channels, captured from either parallel or multiple serial buses, may be grouped and displayed as a bus, with each bus value displayed in hex, binary or decimal, or as a level (for DAC testing). You can set advanced triggers across the analog and digital channels.
The digital inputs also bring extra power to the serial decoding feature. You can decode serial data on all analog and digital channels simultaneously, giving you up to 24 channels of data – for example, decoding multiple SPI, I²C, CAN bus, LIN bus and FlexRay signals all at the same time!
More information on mixed-signal oscilloscopes >>
High resolution for low-level signals
With its 12-bit resolution, the PicoScope 6824E can display low-level signals at high zoom factors. This allows you to view and measure features such as noise and ripple superimposed on larger DC or low-frequency voltages.
Additionally, you can use the lowpass filtering controls on each channel independently, to hide noise and reveal the underlying signal.
Arbitrary waveform and function generator

The PicoScope 6000E scopes have a built-in 50 MHz function (sine and square wave) generator, with triangle, DC level, white noise, PRBS and other waveforms possible at lower frequencies. As well as basic controls to set level, offset and frequency, more advanced controls allow you to sweep over a range of frequencies. Combined with the spectrum peakhold option, this makes a powerful tool for testing amplifier and filter responses.
Trigger tools allow one or more cycles of a waveform to be output when various conditions are met, such as the scope triggering or a mask limit test failing.
Both models include a 14-bit 200 MS/s arbitrary waveform generator (AWG). This has a variable sample clock, which avoids jitter on waveform edges seen with fixed-clock generators and allows generation of accurate frequencies down to 100 µHz. 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.
More information on the arbitrary waveform and function generator >>
Digital triggering architecture

Many digital oscilloscopes still use an analog trigger architecture based on 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.
Advanced triggers
The PicoScope 6000E Series offers an industry-leading set of advanced trigger types including pulse width, runt pulse, windowed, logic and dropout.
The digital trigger available during MSO operation 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.
More information on advanced digital triggers >>
Hardware acceleration engine HAL4
Some oscilloscopes struggle when you enable deep memory; the screen update rate slows and the controls become unresponsive. The PicoScope 6000E 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 2.5 billion samples every second.
The hardware acceleration engine eliminates any concerns about the USB connection or PC processor performance being a bottleneck.
Timestamping
The PicoScope 6000E Series features hardware-based trigger timestamping.
Each waveform can be time-stamped with the time in sample intervals from the previous waveform.
Fast trigger rearm times are possible down to 300 ns (typical).
Intelligent probe interface (probes coming soon!)
With an intelligent probe interface on channels C to F, the PicoScope 6000E Series will support innovative active probes with a low-profile mechanical design for ease of connectivity and low loading of the device under test.
Cost of ownership
Total cost of ownership (TCO) of a PicoScope 6000E is lower than traditional benchtop instruments for several reasons:
1. Low power consumption - just 60W - saves hundreds of dollars throughout the lifetime of the product compared to benchtop instruments. It's kinder to the environment too, with lower CO2 emissions.
2. Everything's included in the purchase price: serial protocol decoders / math channels/mask limit testing for example. No expensive optional upgrades or annual license fees.
3. Free updates. New features and capabilities are provided throughout the lifetime of the product as we develop and release them.
PicoScope 6000E Series software
Ultra-high-definition display

PicoScope PC-based instruments use the host computer’s display, which is typically larger and of higher resolution than the dedicated displays installed in traditional benchtop oscilloscopes. This allows room for simultaneous display of time- and frequency-domain waveforms, decoded serial bus tables, measurement results with statistics and more. PicoScope 6 software scales automatically to take full advantage of the improved resolution of larger display sizes, including 4K ultra-high definition models. At 3840 x 2160 resolution—over eight million pixels—PicoScope allows engineers to get more done in less time through split-screen views of multiple channels (or different views of the same channel) from the device under test. As the example shows, the software can even show multiple oscilloscope and spectrum analyzer traces at once. Large, high-resolution displays really come into their own when viewing high-resolution signals with the PicoScope 6824E 8- to 12-bit FlexRes model. With a 4K monitor, PicoScope can display more than ten times the information of some of our competitors’ scopes, solving the problem of how to match a big display and features with a small-footprint portable oscilloscope.
PicoScope also supports dual monitors: instrument control and waveforms displayed on the first, and large data sets from serial protocol decoders or DeepMeasure results on the second. The software can be controlled by mouse, touchscreen or keyboard shortcuts.
Ultra-deep memory

PicoScope 6000E Series oscilloscopes have waveform capture memories of 2 or 4 gigasamples – many times larger than competing scopes. Deep memory enables the capture of long-duration waveforms at maximum sampling speed. In fact, the PicoScope 6000E Series can capture waveforms 200 ms long with 200 ps resolution. In contrast, the same 200 ms waveform captured by an oscilloscope with a 10 megasample memory would have just 20 ns resolution. The scope automatically shares the capture memory between the analog channels and MSO ports you have enabled.
Deep memory is invaluable when you need to capture fast serial data with long gaps between packets, or nanosecond laser pulses spaced milliseconds apart, for example. It can be useful in other ways too: PicoScope lets you divide the capture memory into a number of segments, up to 10 000. You can set up a trigger condition to store a separate capture in each segment, with as little as 300 ns dead time between captures. Once you have acquired the data, you can step through the memory one segment at a time until you find the event you are looking for.
Powerful tools are included to allow you to manage and examine all of this data. As well as functions such as mask limit testing and color persistence mode, the PicoScope 6 software enables you to zoom into your waveform up to 100 million times. The Zoom Overview 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 6000E Series some of the most powerful oscilloscopes on the market.
More information on Deep memory oscilloscopes >>
Persistence 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 Analog Intensity, Digital Color and Fast Display modes or create your own custom setup.
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 capture rate refers to how quickly an oscilloscope acquires waveforms.
Oscilloscopes with high waveform capture 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 6000E Series’ HAL4 hardware acceleration means that, in fast persistence mode, update rates of up to 300 000 waveforms per second are achievable.
More information on Persistence modes >>
Serial bus decoding and protocol analysis

PicoScope can decode 1-Wire, ARINC 429, BroadR-Reach, CAN & CAN-FD, DALI, DCC, DMX512, Ethernet 10Base-T and 100Base-TX, FlexRay, I²C, I²S, LIN, PS/2, Manchester, Modbus, SENT, SPI, UART (RS-232 / RS-422 / RS-485), and USB 1.1 protocol data as standard, with more protocols in development and available in the future with free-of-charge software
upgrades.
Graph format shows the decoded data (in hex, binary, decimal or ASCII) in a data-bus timing format beneath the waveform on a common time axis, with error frames marked in red. These frames can be zoomed to investigate noise or signal integrity issues.
Table format shows a list of the decoded frames, including the data and all flags and identifiers. You can set up filtering conditions to display only the frames you are interested in or search for frames with specified properties. The statistics option reveals more detail about the physical layer such as frame times and voltage levels. PicoScope can also import a spreadsheet to decode the data into user-defined text strings.
Click on a frame in the table to zoom the oscilloscope display and show the waveform for that frame.
More information on Serial bus decoding and protocol analysis >>
DeepMeasure

One waveform, millions of measurements.
Measurement of waveform pulses and cycles is key to verification of the performance of electrical and electronic devices.
DeepMeasure delivers automatic measurements of important waveform parameters, such as pulse width, rise time and voltage. Up to a million cycles can be displayed with each triggered acquisition. Results can be easily sorted, analyzed and correlated with the waveform display.
More information on DeepMeasure >>
Mask limit testing

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, draw (or have PicoScope 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.
More information on Mask limit testing >>
Waveform buffer and navigator

Ever spotted a glitch on a waveform, but by the time you’ve stopped the scope it has gone? With PicoScope you don’t need to worry about missing glitches or other transient events. PicoScope can store the last ten thousand oscilloscope or spectrum waveforms in its circular waveform buffer.
The buffer navigator provides an efficient way of navigating and searching through waveforms, effectively letting you turn back time. Tools such as mask limit testing can also be used to scan through each waveform in the buffer looking for mask violations.
More information on Waveform buffer >>
FFT spectrum analyzer

The spectrum view plots amplitude against frequency and is ideal for finding noise, crosstalk or distortion in signals. The spectrum analyzer in PicoScope is of the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) type that, unlike a traditional swept spectrum analyzer, can display the spectrum of a single, non-repeating waveform. With up to a million points, PicoScope’s FFT has excellent frequency resolution and a low noise floor.
With a click of a button, you can display a spectrum plot of the active channels, with a maximum frequency of up to 500 MHz. A full range of settings gives you control over the number of spectrum bands (FFT bins), window types, scaling (including log/log) and display modes (instantaneous, average, or peak-hold).
You can display multiple spectrum views alongside oscilloscope views of the same data. A comprehensive set of automatic frequency-domain measurements can be added to the display, including THD, THD N, SNR, SINAD and IMD. A mask limit test can be applied to a spectrum and you can even use the AWG and spectrum mode together to perform swept scalar network analysis.
More information on Spectrum analyzer >>
Alarms

PicoScope can be programmed to execute actions when certain events occur.
The events that can trigger an alarm include mask limit fails, trigger events and buffers full.
The actions that PicoScope can execute include saving a file, playing a sound, executing a program and triggering the signal generator or the AWG.
Alarms, 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 alarms to automatically save any waveform (complete with a time/date stamp) that does not meet specification.
Math channels and filters

With PicoScope 6 you can select simple functions such as addition and inversion, or open the equation editor to create complex functions involving filters (lowpass, highpass, bandpass and bandstop filters), trigonometry, exponentials, logarithms, statistics, integrals and derivatives.
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. You can also use math channels to reveal new details in complex signals, for example graphing the changing duty cycle or frequency of your signal over time.
More information on Math channels >>
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.
More information on Custom probes >>
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.
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.
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. The Frequency Response Analyzer shown here is a popular application on the forum.
More information on PicoSDK >>
PicoScope 6000E Series specifications
Model |
PicoScope |
Bandwidth (–3 dB) |
300 MHz |
500 MHz |
750 MHz |
1 GHz |
4- channel 8-bit |
6403E |
6404E |
6405E |
6406E |
4-channel FlexRes |
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6424E |
6425E |
6426E |
8-channel 8-bit |
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6804E |
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8-channel FlexRes |
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6824E |
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Vertical (analog channels) |
Bandwidth (–3 dB) |
300 MHz |
500 MHz |
50 Ω ranges: 750 MHz
1 MΩ ranges: 500 MHz |
50 Ω ranges: 1 GHz
1 MΩ ranges: 500 MHz |
Rise time |
< 1.3 ns |
< 850 ps |
50 Ω ranges: < 475 ps
1 MΩ ranges: < 850 ps |
50 Ω ranges: < 350 ps
1 MΩ ranges: < 850 ps |
Bandwidth limiter |
20 MHz. Software-switchable. |
20 MHz or 200 MHz. Software-switchable. |
Vertical resolution[2] |
FlexRes models: 8, 10 or 12 bits
Other models: 8 bits |
LSB size[2] (quantization step size) |
8-bit mode: < 0.4% of input range
10-bit mode (FlexRes models): < 0.1% of input range
12-bit mode (FlexRes models): < 0.025% of input range |
Enhanced vertical resolution |
Hardware resolution up to 4 bits |
Input connector |
BNC(f). x10 readout-pin compatible. Intelligent Probe Interface on all channels (4-channel models) or on channels C to F (8-channel models). |
Input ranges |
1 MΩ ranges: ±10 mV, ±20 mV, ±50 mV, ±100 mV, ±200 mV, ±500 mV, ±1 V, ±2 V, ±5 V, ±10 V, ±20 V
50 Ω ranges: ±10 mV to ±5 V as above |
Input sensitivity |
1 MΩ ranges: 2 mV/div to 4 V/div (10 vertical divisions)
50 Ω ranges: 2 mV/div to 1 V/div (10 vertical divisions) |
Input coupling |
1 MΩ ranges: AC / DC
50 Ω ranges: DC |
Input characteristics |
1 MΩ ±0.5% ∥ 12 pF ±1 pF |
50 Ω ±2% |
50 Ω ±3% |
DC gain accuracy (8-bit models) |
±(1.5% of signal 1 LSB) |
±(1.5% of signal 1 LSB) |
±(1.5% of signal 1 LSB) |
DC gain accuracy (FlexRes models) |
N/A |
±(0.5% of signal 1 LSB) |
±(1% of signal 1 LSB) |
DC offset accuracy |
±(1% of full scale 250 μV).
Can be improved by using the “zero offset” function in PicoScope 6. |
Analog offset range (vertical position adjust) |
50 Ω ranges:
±1.25 V (±10 mV to ±1 V ranges)
±20 V (±2 V to ±20 V ranges) |
50 Ω ranges:
±125 mV (±10 mV to ±100 mV ranges)
±1.25 V (±200 mV to ±1 V ranges)
±5 V (±2 V and ±5 V ranges) |
1 MΩ ranges:
±1.25 V (±10 mV to ±1 V ranges)
±20 V (±2 V to ±20 V ranges) |
Analog offset control accuracy |
±0.5% of offset setting, additional to basic DC offset accuracy |
Overvoltage protection |
1 MΩ ranges: ±100 V (DC AC peak) up to 10 kHz
50 Ω ranges: 5.5 V RMS max, ± 10V pk max |
Vertical (digital channels, with optional TA369 8-channel MSO pods) |
Input channels |
16 channels (2 ports of 8 channels each) |
Maximum detectable input frequency |
500 MHz (1 Gb/s) |
Minimum detectable pulse width |
1 ns |
Input connector (probe tip) |
Staggered signal and ground sockets for each channel, to accept 0.64 – 0.89 mm round or 0.64 mm square pin, 2.54 mm pitch |
Input characteristics |
101 kΩ ±1% ∥ 3.5 pF ±0.5 pF |
Maximum input voltage at probe tip |
±40 V up to 10 MHz, derated linearly to ±5 V at 500 MHz |
Threshold range and resolution |
±8 V in approx. 5 mV steps |
Threshold grouping |
PicoScope 6: Two independent threshold controls, one per 8-channel port
PicoSDK: Individual threshold for each channel |
Threshold selection |
TTL, CMOS, ECL, PECL, user-defined |
Threshold accuracy |
±(100 mV 3% of threshold setting) |
Minimum input voltage swing (at maximum frequency) |
400 mV peak to peak |
Hysteresis (at DC) |
PicoScope 6: Fixed hysteresis approx. 100 mV
PicoSDK: selectable per port; approx. 50 mV, 100 mV, 200 mV or 400 mV |
Minimum input slew rate |
No minimum slew rate requirement |
Horizontal |
Maximum sampling rate (real-time, 8-bit) |
Up to 2 channels[4], 0 or 1 analog |
5 GS/s |
4-ch models: 5 GS/s[1]
8-ch models: 5 GS/s[3] |
5 GS/s[1] |
Up to 4 channels, 2 analog |
2.5 GS/s[1] |
4-ch models: 2.5 GS/s
8-ch models: 2.5 GS/s[2] |
2.5 GS/s |
Up to 4 channels, 3 or 4 analog |
1.25 GS/s |
Up to 8 channels |
1.25 GS/s |
More than 8 channels |
N/A |
625 MS/s |
N/A |
Maximum sampling rate (real time, 10-bit, FlexRes models only) |
1 channel |
N/A |
5 GS/s |
Up to 2 channels |
6824E: 2.5 GS/s[2]
6424E: 2.5 GS/s |
2.5 GS/s |
Up to 4 channels |
1.25 GS/s |
Up to 8 channels |
625 MS/s |
More than 8 channels |
6424E: N/A
6824E: 312.5 MS/s |
N/A |
Maximum sampling rate (real time, 12-bit, up to 2 channels, FlexRes models only) |
1 to 2 analog channels plus 0 to 2 digital ports |
N/A |
6824E: 1.25 GS/s[3]
6424E: 1.25 GS/s[1] |
1.25 GS/s[1] |
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[1] No more than one channel from each of AB and CD.
[2] No more than one channel from each of AB, CD, EF and GH.
[3] No more than one channel from each of ABCD and EFGH.
[4] In this section a channel counts as either an analog input or an 8-bit MSO port. |
Max. sampling rate, USB 3.0 streaming mode (split between active channels, PC dependent) |
PicoScope 6 |
~20 MS/s |
PicoSDK |
~312 MS/s |
~312 MS/s (8-bit mode)
~156 MS/s (10/12-bit modes, FlexRes models) |
Max. sampling rate to on-device buffer (continuous USB streaming of raw or downsampled data, split between enabled channels) |
PicoSDK only |
1.25 GS/s |
1.25 GS/s (8-bit mode)
625 MS/s (10/12-bit modes, FlexRes models) |
Capture memory (shared between active channels) |
8-bit models |
1 GS |
2 GS |
FlexRes models, 8-bit mode |
N/A |
4 GS |
FlexRes models, 10- and 12-bit modes |
2 GS |
Maximum single capture duration at maximum sampling rate |
PicoScope 6 |
200 ms |
8-bit models, PicoSDK |
200 ms |
400 ms |
8-bit, PicoSDK, FlexRes models |
N/A |
800 ms |
10-bit, PicoSDK, FlexRes models |
N/A |
400 ms |
12-bit, PicoSDK, FlexRes models |
1600 ms |
Capture memory (continuous streaming) |
100 MS in PicoScope software. Buffering using full device memory when using PicoSDK, no limit on total duration of capture. |
Waveform buffer (number of segments, PicoScope 6) |
10 000 |
Waveform buffer (number of segments, PicoSDK) |
1 000 000 |
2 000 000 |
Timebase ranges |
1 ns/div to 5000 s/div |
Initial timebase accuracy |
±2 ppm |
Timebase drift |
±1 ppm/year |
ADC sampling |
Simultaneous sampling on all enabled analog and digital channels |
External reference clock |
Input characteristics |
Hi-Z, AC coupled (> 1 kΩ at 10 MHz) |
Input frequency range |
10 MHz ±50 ppm |
Input connector |
Rear-panel BNC(f), dedicated |
Input level |
200 mV to 3.3 V peak to peak |
Overvoltage protection |
±5 V peak max |
Dynamic performance (typical; analog channels) |
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300 MHz |
500 MHz |
750 MHz |
1 GHz |
Crosstalk |
1200:1 (±10 mV to ±1 V ranges)
300:1 (±2 V to ±20 V ranges) |
2500:1 (±10 mV to ±1 V ranges)
600:1 (±2 V to ±20 V ranges) |
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from DC to bandwidth of victim channel, equal voltage ranges |
Harmonic distortion, 8-bit mode |
–50 dB at 1 MHz full scale |
Harmonic distortion, 10/12-bit mode, FlexRes models |
–60 dB at 1 MHz full scale, typical |
SFDR, 8-bit models |
> 50 dB on ±50 mV to ±20 V ranges |
SFDR, FlexRes models |
> 60 dB on ±50 mV to ±20 V ranges |
Noise, 8-bit models |
< 200 μV RMS on most sensitive range |
Noise, FlexRes models |
< 150 μV RMS on most sensitive range |
Bandwidth flatness |
( 0.3 dB, –3 dB) from DC to full bandwidth |
Low frequency flatness |
< ±3% (or ±0.3 dB) from DC to 1 MHz |
Triggering (main specifications) |
Source |
Any analog channel, AUX trigger, plus digital ports with optional TA369 MSO pods |
Trigger modes |
None, auto, repeat, single, rapid (segmented memory) |
Advanced trigger types (analog channels) |
Edge, window, pulse width, window pulse width, level dropout, window dropout, interval, runt, logic.
Logic allows arbitrary combinations of up to 4 analog channels or MSO ports. |
Trigger sensitivity (analog channels) |
Digital triggering provides 1 LSB accuracy up to full bandwidth of scope. |
Trigger types (digital inputs) |
With optional MSO pods: Edge, pulse width, dropout, interval, logic, pattern, mixed signal |
Pre-trigger capture |
Up to 100% of capture size |
Post-trigger delay and other time intervals |
PicoScope 6: 0 to > 4 x 109 samples, settable in 1 sample steps (delay range at fastest sample rate of 0.8 s in 200 ps steps)
PicoSDK: 0 to > 1012 samples, settable in 1 sample steps (delay range at fastest sample rate of > 200 s in 200 ps steps) |
Rapid trigger mode rearm time |
700 ns max, 300 ns typical (single channel, 5 GS/s) |
Maximum trigger rate |
PicoScope 6: 10 000 waveforms in 3 ms; PicoSDK: 6 million waveforms per second |
Trigger time-stamping |
Each waveform is timestamped in sample intervals (PicoSDK) or time (PicoScope 6) from previous waveform.
The time resets when any settings are changed. |
Auxiliary trigger input |
Connector type |
Rear-panel BNC(f) |
Trigger types (triggering scope) |
Edge, pulse width, dropout, interval, logic |
Input characteristics |
2.5 V CMOS high-impedance input, DC coupled |
Bandwidth |
> 10 MHz |
Threshold range |
Fixed threshold, 1.25 V nominal to suit 2.5 V CMOS |
Hysteresis |
1 V max (VIH < 1.75V, VIL > 0.75V) |
Overvoltage protection |
±20 V peak max |
Function generator |
Standard output signals |
Sine, square, triangle, DC voltage, ramp up, ramp down, sinc, Gaussian, half-sine |
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 50 Mb/s |
Standard signal frequency |
Sine (filtered): 100 μHz to 50 MHz; Square (full bandwidth): 100 μHz to 50 MHz; Other waves: 100 μHz to 1 MHz |
Sweep modes |
Up, down, dual with selectable start / stop frequencies and increments |
Sweep frequency range |
Sine / square waves: 0.075 Hz to 50 MHz
Other waves: 0.075 Hz to 1 MHz
Swept frequencies down to 100 μHz possible in PicoSDK with some restrictions |
Sweep frequency resolution |
In PicoScope 6 software: 0.075 Hz
Sweep frequency resolution down to 100 μHz possible in PicoSDK with some restrictions. |
Triggering |
Free-run, or from 1 to 1 billion counted waveform cycles or frequency sweeps. Triggered from scope trigger or manually. |
Gating |
Software controlled gating of waveform output |
Output frequency accuracy |
Oscilloscope timebase accuracy ± output frequency resolution |
Output frequency resolution |
0.002 ppm |
Output voltage range |
±5 V into open circuit; ±2.5 V into 50 Ω |
Output voltage adjustment |
Signal amplitude and offset adjustable in < 1 mV steps within overall range |
Amplitude flatness |
< 2.0 dB to 50 MHz (sine wave into 50 Ω)
< 0.5 dB to 50 MHz (square)
< 1.0 dB to 1 MHz (other waveforms) |
Analog filters |
50 MHz selectable filter (5-pole, 30 dB/octave) |
DC accuracy |
±(0.5% of output voltage 20 mV) |
SFDR |
70 dB (10 kHz 1 V peak to peak sine into 50 Ω) |
Output noise |
< 700 μV RMS (DC output, filter enabled, into 50 Ω) |
Output resistance |
50 Ω ±3% |
Connector type |
Rear-panel BNC(f) |
Overvoltage protection |
±20 V peak max |
Arbitrary waveform generator |
Update rate |
Variable from < 1 S/s to 200 MS/s with < 0.002 ppm resolution |
Buffer size |
40 kS |
Resolution |
14 bits (output step size < 1 mV) |
Bandwidth (−3 dB) |
No filter: 100 MHz
Filtered: 50 MHz |
Rise time (10% to 90%) |
No filter: 3.5 ns
Filtered: 6 ns |
Additional AWG specifications including sweep modes, triggering, frequency accuracy and resolution, voltage range, DC accuracy and output characteristics are as the function generator
Probe support |
Intelligent probe interface |
Intelligent probe interface on four channels supporting A3000 Series active probes. Probe interface supplies power and controls the probe. |
Probe detection |
Automatic detection of Pico P2036, P2056 x10 passive oscilloscope probes, and A3000 Series active probes. |
Probe compensation pin |
1 kHz, 2 V peak to peak square wave, 600 Ω |
Probe compensation pin rise time |
< 50 ns |
Spectrum analyzer |
Frequency range |
DC to oscilloscope's rated bandwidth |
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 |
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 |
Operands |
A, B, C, D (input channels), T (time), reference waveforms, pi, 1D0−2D7 (digital channels), constants |
Automatic measurements |
Scope mode |
AC RMS, true RMS, frequency, cycle time, duty cycle, DC average, falling rate, rising rate, low pulse width, high pulse width, fall time, rise time, minimum, maximum, peak to peak |
Spectrum mode |
Frequency at peak, amplitude at peak, average amplitude at peak, total power, THD %, THD dB, THD N, SFDR, SINAD, SNR, IMD |
Statistics |
Minimum, maximum, average, standard deviation |
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 |
Serial decoding |
Protocols |
1-Wire, ARINC 429, CAN, CAN FD, DALI, DCC, DMX512, Ethernet 10Base-T and 100Base-TX, FlexRay, I²C, I²S, LIN, Manchester, MODBUS, PS/2, MODBUS, SENT, SPI, UART (RS-232), USB 1.1 |
Mask limit testing |
Statistics |
Pass/fail, failure count, total count |
Mask creation |
User-drawn, table entry, auto-generated from waveform or imported from file |
Display |
Interpolation |
Linear or sin(x)/x |
Persistence modes |
Digital color, analog intensity, custom, fast |
Output functions |
Copy to clipboard, print |
Output file formats |
BMP, CSV, GIF (static and animated), JPG, MAT, PDF, PNG, PSDATA, PSSETTINGS, TXT |
Software |
Windows software
(32-bit or 64-bit)[5] |
PicoScope 6, 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)[5] |
PicoScope 6 Beta (including drivers), PicoLog 6 (including drivers) |
Linux software (64-bit)[5] |
PicoScope 6 Beta software and drivers, PicoLog 6 (including drivers)
See Linux Software and Drivers to install drivers only |
Raspberry Pi 4B
(Raspberry Pi OS)[5] |
PicoLog 6 (including drivers)
See Linux Software and Drivers to install drivers only |
[5] See www.picotech.com/downloads for more information. |
Languages supported, PicoScope 6 |
Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish |
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) |
General |
Package contents |
- PicoScope 6000E Series PC oscilloscope
- 10:1 passive probes (4)
- P2036 300 MHz probes with 300 MHz models
- P2056 500 MHz probes with 500 MHz, 750 MHz and 1 GHz models
- User’s Guide
- 12 V power adaptor, universal input
- Localized IEC mains lead
- USB cable, 1.8 m
- Storage/carry case
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PC connectivity |
USB 3.0 SuperSpeed (USB 2.0 compatible) |
USB connector |
Type B |
Power requirements |
12 V DC from supplied PSU. Up to 5 A (scope only) or 7 A including scope-powered accessories |
Ground terminal |
Functional ground terminal accepting wire or 4 mm plug, rear-panel |
Thermal management |
Automatic fan speed control for low noise |
Dimensions |
245 x 192 x 61.5 mm |
Weight |
2.2 kg (scope only)
5.6 kg (in carry case with PSU and cables) |
Temperature range |
Operating: 0 to 40 °C
15 to 30 °C for quoted accuracy after 1 hour warm-up
Storage: –20 to 60 °C |
Humidity range |
Operating: 5 to 80 %RH non-condensing
Storage: 5 to 95 %RH non-condensing |
Altitude range |
Up to 2000 m |
Pollution degree |
EN 61010 pollution degree 2 |
Safety compliance |
Designed to EN 61010-1:2010 A1:2019 |
EMC compliance |
Tested to EN61326-1:2013 and FCC Part 15 Subpart B |
Environmental compliance |
RoHS, REACH, WEEE |
Warranty |
5 years |
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None of the models here include Pods, however, some do include probes and some models are without probes.
4 Channel units with probes, have 4 probes
and
8 Channel units, have 8 Probes. |
PQ309 Picoscope 6406E-D4 - 4 Ch, 1 Ghz B/W, 8 bits, 2GS Memory With 4 Oscilloscope Probes *** NEW PRODUCT***
[no pods or active probes] [UK # IS PQ301] |
PQ311 Picoscope 6426E-D4 - 4 Ch, 1 Ghz B/W, 8/10/12 bits [FLEXRES], 2GS Memory With 4 Oscilloscope Probes *** NEW PRODUCT***
[no pods or active probes] [UK # IS PQ303] |
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PQ310 PicoScope 6425E 750 MHz, 4 channel, FLEXRES kit *** NEW PRODUCT***
[UK # IS PQ302] |
PQ308 PicoScope 6405E 750 MHz, 4 channel, 8-bit kit US PSU *** NEW PRODUCT***
[UK # IS PQ300] |
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PQ204 Picoscope 6804E - 8 Ch, 500 Mhz With Probes
[UK # IS PQ197] |
PQ205 Picoscope 6824E - 8 Ch, 500MHz, FLEXRES With Probes
[UK # IS PQ198] |
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PQ248 Picoscope 6804E - 8 Ch, 500 Mhz W/O Probes
[UK # IS PQ241] |
PQ249 Picoscope 6824E - 8 Ch, 500MHz, FLEXRES W/O Probes
[UK # IS PQ242] |
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PQ206 Picoscope 6403E - 4 Ch, 300MHz, With Probes
[UK # IS PQ199] |
PQ207 Picoscope 6404E - 4Ch, 500MHz, With Probes
[UK # IS PQ200] |
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PQ250 Picoscope 6403E - 4 Ch, 300MHz, W/O Probes
[UK # IS PQ243] |
PQ251 Picoscope 6404E - 4Ch, 500MHz, W/O Probes
[UK # IS PQ244] |
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PQ208 Picoscope 6424E - 4 Channel With 2 Probes - 0 Pods
[UK # IS PQ201] |
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PQ252 Picoscope 6424E-D4 - 4 Channel (No Probes or Pods)
[UK # IS PQ245] |
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Probes and PODS |
TA479 - P2036 Passive Oscilloscope Probe
300 Mhz, 2.5mm, 10:1, BNC, Dual Pack |
TA480 - P2056 Passive Oscilloscope Probe
300 Mhz, 2.5mm, 10:1, BNC, Dual Pack |
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TA369 - Picoscope 6000e Series MSO Pod. 8 Channel |
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Download Product Data Sheet Here - 19.6Mb
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