Overview

Flexible Resolution USB Oscilloscope

FlexRes 8 to 16-bit hardware resolution
Up to 200 MHz analog bandwidth
1 GS/s sampling at 8-bit resolution
62.5 MS/s sampling at 16-bit resolution
Up to 512 MS capture memory
16 digital channels on MSO models
130 000 waveforms per second
Built-in arbitrary waveform generator
18 serial decoding protocols as standard
Up to 200 MHz spectrum analyzer

Today’s electronic designs employ a wide range of signal types: analog, digital, serial (both high- and low-speed), parallel, audio, video, power distribution and so on. All need to be debugged, measured and validated to ensure that the device under test is functioning correctly and within specification.

To handle this variety of signal types, PicoScope 5000D FlexRes hardware employs multiple high-resolution ADCs at the input channels in different time-interleaved and parallel combinations to optimize either the sampling rate to 1 GS/s at 8 bits, the resolution to 16 bits at 62.5 MS/s, or other combinations in between – you select the most appropriate hardware resolution for the requirements of each measurement.

2 and 4 channel models are available, all featuring a SuperSpeed USB 3.0 connection, providing lightning-fast saving of waveforms while retaining compatibility with older USB standards. The PicoSDK® software development kit supports continuous streaming to the host computer at rates up to 125 MS/s. The product is small and light, and operates silently thanks to its low-power fanless design.

Supported by the free-of-charge and regularly updated PicoScope 6 software, the PicoScope 5000D Series offers an ideal, cost-effective package for many applications, including design, research, test, education, service and repair.

What is FlexRes?

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Pico FlexRes flexible resolution oscilloscopes allow you to reconfigure the scope hardware to increase either the sampling rate or the resolution. This means you can reconfigure the hardware to be either a fast (1 GS/s) 8-bit oscilloscope for looking at digital signals, or a high-resolution 16-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.

Deep capture memory

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 500 ms long with 1 ns resolution. In contrast, the same 500 ms waveform captured by an oscilloscope with a 10 megasample memory would have just 50 ns resolution.

Deep memory can be useful in other ways too: PicoScope lets you divide the capture memory into a number of segments, up to a maximum of 10 000. You can set up a trigger condition to store a separate capture in each segment, with as little as 1 µs 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, PicoScope 6 software enables you to zoom into your waveform by a factor of several million. The Zoom Overview window allows you to easily control the size and location of the zoom area.

Other tools, such as DeepMeasureTM, serial decoding and hardware acceleration work with the deep memory, making the PicoScope 5000D Series among the most powerful oscilloscopes on the market.

Mixed-signal models

The PicoScope 5000D MSO models add 16 digital channels to the 2 or 4 analog channels, enabling you to accurately time-correlate analog and digital channels. Digital channels 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 both the analog and digital channels. The digital channels can also be used as sources for the serial decoders, giving up to 20 channels of data – for example decoding multiple SPI, I²C, CAN bus, LIN bus and FlexRay signals all at the same time.

Advanced digital triggering

The PicoScope 5000D Series offers an industry-leading set of advanced triggers including pulse width, runt pulse, 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.

[PicoScope 5000D MSO logic trigger setup menu

Arbitrary waveform and function generator

All PicoScope 5000D units have a built in 14-bit 200 MS/s arbitrary waveform generator (AWG). You can create and adapt arbitrary waveforms using the built-in editor, import them from existing oscilloscope traces, or load a waveform from a spreadsheet.

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.
PicoScope 5000D Function Generator
Combined with the spectrum peak hold option, this makes a powerful tool for testing amplifier and filter responses. Trigger tools allow you to output one or more cycles of a waveform when various conditions are met, such as the scope triggering or a mask limit test failing.[Gain & phase plot using FRA for PicoScope application]Software Development Kit - write your own apps

The software development kit (SDK) allows you to write your own software and includes drivers for Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac (macOS) and Linux (including Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone).

Example code shows how to interface to third-party software packages such as Microsoft Excel, National Instruments LabVIEW and MathWorks MATLAB.

There is also an active community of PicoScope users who share code and applications on the Pico forum and PicoApps section of the picotech.com web site. The Frequency Response Analyzer shown opposite is one of the most popular third-party applications.

PicoScope 5000 oscilloscope software

Advanced display

PicoScope software dedicates almost all of the display area to the waveform so that you can see the maximum amount of data at once. The viewing area is much bigger and of a higher resolution than that of a traditional benchtop scope.

With such a large display area, you can also create a customizable split-screen display, and view multiple channels or different views of the same signal at the same time. As the example shows, the software can even show multiple oscilloscope and spectrum analyzer traces at once. Each waveform works with individual zoom, pan, and filter settings for ultimate flexibility.

The PicoScope software can be controlled by mouse, touchscreen or keyboard shortcuts.

Digital persistence mode

Persistence mode superimposes multiple waveforms on the same view, with more frequent data or newer waveforms emphasized with deeper saturation or hotter colors. Use this mode for viewing complex or changing waveforms and you will be able to see glitches even if subsequent waveforms are drawn on top.

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Math channels and filters

On many oscilloscopes, waveform math just means simple calculations such as A B. With a PicoScope it means much more.

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.

Waveform math also allows you to plot live signals alongside historic peak, averaged or filtered waveforms.

You can also use math channels to reveal new details in complex signals. For example, you can graph the changing duty cycle or frequency of a signal over time.

Custom probes

Definitions for standard Pico-supplied oscilloscope probes and current clamps are included in the 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. For example, it can scale the output of a current probe so that it correctly displays amperes. It can also transform the output of a nonlinear temperature sensor using the table lookup function.

PicoScope custom probes - first page of the definition wizard

You can save user-created probes for later use.

Custom Probes wizard - page 2

Alarms

You can program PicoScope to execute actions when it detects events such as mask limit failures, triggers and buffers full.

PicoScope’s actions include saving a file, playing a sound, executing a program or triggering the arbitrary waveform generator.

Alarms, coupled with mask limit testing, help create a powerful and time-saving waveform monitoring tool. Capture a known good signal, generate a mask around it and then use the alarms to automatically save any waveform (complete with a timestamp) that does not meet your specifications.

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. This video shows you how.

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 almost endless.

Documents

Resource		Version	Size	Last updated
Data Sheet:
PicoScope 5000D Series Data Sheet	English	1	3 MB	June 01 2018
User Guides Manuals:
PicoScope 5000D Series User’s Guide	English	1	538 KB	June 01 2018
PicoScope 6 User’s Guide	English	48	10MB	February 12 2018
Programmer's Guide:
Triggering a PicoScope signal generator using the PicoScope API functions	English	1	54 KB	April 01 2015
Quick Start Guide:
PicoScope USB Oscilloscope Quick Start Guide	English Français Deutsch Italiano Español ä¸æ–‡ (ç®€ä½“) í•œêµì–´ æ—¥æœ¬èªž	1	1MB	March 13 2018
Training Guides:
PicoScope 6 Frequently Asked Questions	English	3	949KB	August 18 2016
PicoScope 6 Oscilloscope Software Training Manual	English	3	8MB	October 01 2014
Beginner’s Guide to PicoScope	English	1	2MB	August 26 2014
Declarations:
PicoScope 5000D Series EU Declaration of Conformity	English	1	537KB	June 01 2018

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PicoScope 5000 Series oscilloscope specifications

Model	PicoScope
Bandwidth (–3 dB)	60 MHz		100 MHz		200 MHz
2 Channel	5242D	5242D MSO	5243D	5243D MSO	5244D	5244D MSO
4 Channel	5442D	5442D MSO	5443D	5443D MSO	5444D	5444D MSO

Oscilloscope — Vertical
Input type	Single-ended, BNC connector
Bandwidth (−3 dB	60 MHz, 100 MHz, 200 MHz
Rise time (calculated)	5.8 ns, 3.5 ns, 1.75 ns
Vertical resolution	8, 12, 14, 15 or 16 bits
Software-enhanced vertical resolution	Hardware resolution 4 bits
Input ranges	±10 mV to ±20 V full scale, in 11 ranges
Input sensitivity	2 mV/div to 4 V/div (10 vertical divisions)
Input coupling	AC / DC
Input characteristics	1 MΩ ± 1% \|\| 14 ±1 pF
Gain accuracy	±1% of full scale ±300 μV
Offset accuracy	±500 µV ±1% of full scale[3] Offset accuracy can be improved by using the “zero offset” function in PicoScope 6.
Analogue offset range (vertical position adjustment)	±250 mV (10, 20, 50, 100, 200 mV ranges), ±2.5 V (500 mV, 1 V, 2 V ranges), ±20 V (5, 10, 20 V ranges)
Analog offset control accuracy	±0.5% of offset setting, additional to basic DC offset accuracy
Vertical (digital channels) – D MSO models only
Input channels	16 channels (2 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
Input impedance	200 kΩ ±2% \|\| 8 pF ±2 pF
Input dynamic range	±20 V
Threshold range	±5 V
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 accuracy	< ±350 mV including hysteresis
Threshold hysteresis	< ±250 mV
Minimum input voltage swing	500 mV peak to peak
Channel-to-channel skew	2 ns, typical
Minimum input slew rate	10 V/µs
Overvoltage protection	±50 V (DC AC peak)

Oscilloscope — Horizontal (timebase)
Maximum sampling rate (real-time) Any 1 channel Any 2 channels Any 3 or 4 channels More than 4 channels	8-bit mode 1 GS/s 500 MS/s 250 MS/s 125 MS/s	12-bit mode500 MS/s 250 MS/s 125 MS/s 62.5 MS/s	14-bit mode125 MS/s 125 MS/s 125 MS/s 62.5 MS/s	15-bit mode[4] 125 MS/s 125 MS/s	16-bit mode[4] 62.5 MS/s
	"Channel" means any analog channel or 8-bit digital port [4] Any number of 8-bit digital ports can be used in 15-bit and 16-bit modes without affecting the maximum sampling rate
Bandwidth:	60 MHz		100 MHz	200 MHz
Maximum equivalent sampling rate (repetitive signals; 8-bit mode only, ETS mode)	2.5 GS/s		5 GS/s	10 GS/s
Maximum sampling rate (continuous USB streaming into PC memory)	USB3, using PicoScope 6: 15 to 20 MS/s USB3, using PicoSDK: 125 MS/s (8-bit) or 62.5 MS/s (12 to 16 bit modes) USB2, using PicoScope 6: 8 to 10 MS/s USB2, using PicoSDK: ~30 MS/s (8-bit) or ~15 MS/s (12 to 16 bit modes)
Timebase ranges (real time)	1 ns/div to 5000 s/div in 39 ranges
Fastest timebase (ETS)	500 ps/div		200 ps/div	100 ps/div
Buffer memory (8-bit mode)	128 MS		256 MS	512 MS
Buffer memory (≥ 12-bit mode)	64 MS		128 MS	256 MS
Buffer memory (continuous streaming)	100 MS in PicoScope software
Waveform buffer (no. of segments)	10 000 in PicoScope software
Waveform buffer (no. of segments) when using PicoSDK (8 bit mode)	250 000		500 000	1 000 000
Waveform buffer (no. of segments) when using PicoSDK (12 to 16 bit modes)	125 000		250 000	500 000
Initial timebase accuracy	±50 ppm (0.005%)		±2 ppm (0.0002%)	±2 ppm (0.0002%)
Timebase drift	±5 ppm/year		±1 ppm/year	±1 ppm/year
Sample jitter	3 ps RMS, typical
ADC sampling	Simultaneous on all enabled channels

Dynamic performance (typical; analog channels):
Crosstalk (full bandwidth)	Better than 400:1 up to full bandwidth (equal voltage ranges)
Harmonic distortion	8-bit mode: −60 dB at 100 kHz full scale input. 12-bit mode or higher: −70 dB at 100 kHz full scale input
SFDR	8 to 12-bit modes: 60 dB at 100 kHz full scale input. 14 to 16-bit modes: 70 dB at 100 kHz full scale input.
Noise (on most sensitive range)	8-bit mode: 120 μV RMS 12-bit mode: 110 μV RMS 14-bit mode: 100 μV RMS 15-bit mode: 85 μV RMS 16-bit mode: 70 μV RMS
Bandwidth flatness	( 0.3 dB, –3 dB) from DC to full bandwidth

Triggering (main specifications):
Source	Analog channels, plus: MSO models: Digital D0 to D15. Other models: Ext trigger.
Trigger modes	None, auto, repeat, single, rapid (segmented memory).
Advanced trigger types (analog channels)	Edge, window, pulse width, window pulse width, dropout, window dropout, interval, runt, logic.
Trigger types (analog channels, ETS)	Rising or falling edge ETS trigger available on ChA only, 8-bit mode only.
Trigger sensitivity (analog channels)	Digital triggering provides 1 LSB accuracy up to full bandwidth of scope.
Trigger sensitivity (analog channels, ETS)	At full bandwidth: typical 10 mV peak to peak
Trigger types (digital inputs)	MSO models only: Edge, pulse width, dropout, interval, logic, pattern, mixed signal.
Maximum pre-trigger capture	Up to 100% of capture size.
Maximum post-trigger delay	Zero to 4 billion samples, settable in 1 sample steps (delay range on fastest timebase of 0 – 4 s in 1 ns steps)
Trigger re-arm time	8-bit mode, typical: 1 μs on fastest timebase 8 to 12 bit modes: < 2 μs max on fastest timebase 14 to 16 bit modes: < 3 μs max on fastest timebase
Maximum trigger rate	10 000 waveforms in a 10 ms burst, 8-bit mode
External trigger input – not MSO models:
Connector type	Front panel BNC
Trigger types	Edge, pulse width, dropout, interval, logic
Input characteristics	1 MΩ ± 1% \|\| 14 pF ±1.5 pF
Bandwidth	60 MHz	100 MHz	200 MHz
Threshold range	±5 V
Threshold range	±5 V, DC coupled
External trigger threshold accuracy	±1% of full scale
External trigger sensitivity	200 mV peak to peak
Coupling	DC
Overvoltage protection	±100 V (DC AC peak)

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 20 Mb/s
Standard signal frequency	0.025 Hz to 20 MHz
Sweep modes	Up, down, dual with selectable start / stop frequencies and increments
Triggering	Can trigger a counted number of waveform cycles or frequency sweeps (from 1 to 1 billion) from the scope trigger, external trigger or from software. Can also use the external trigger to gate the signal generator output.
Output frequency accuracy	Oscilloscope timebase accuracy ± output frequency resolution
Output frequency resolution	< 0.025 Hz
Output voltage range	±2 V
Output voltage adjustments	Signal amplitude and offset adjustable in approx 0.25 mV steps within overall ±2 V range
Amplitude flatness	< 1.5 dB to 20 MHz, typical
DC accuracy	±1% of full scale
SFDR	> 70 dB, 10 kHz full scale sine wave
Output characteristics	50 Ω ±1%
Connector type	BNC(f)
Overvoltage protection	±20 V

Arbitrary Waveform Generator:
Update rate	200 MHz
Buffer size	32 kS
Resolution	14 bits (output step size approximately 0.25 mV)
Bandwidth	>20 MHz
Rise time (10% to 90%)	< 10 ns (50 Ω load)
Additional AWG specifications including sweep modes, triggering, frequency accuracy and resolution, voltage range, DC accuracy and output characteristics are as the function generator
Probe compensation pin
Output characteristics	600 Ω
Output frequency	1 kHz
Output level	3 V peak to peak, typical
Overvoltage protection	10 V

Spectrum analyser:
Frequency range	DC to 60 MHz	DC to 100 MHz	DC to 200 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

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, D0−D15 (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 and 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, DCC, DMX512, Ethernet 10Base-T and 100Base-TX, FlexRay, I²C, I²S, LIN, PS/2, MODBUS, SENT, SPI, UART (RS-232 / RS-422 / RS-485), 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

Software:
Windows	PicoScope for Windows For Windows 7, 8 and 10
Languages	Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish

General:
PC connectivity	USB 3.0 SuperSpeed (USB 2.0 compatible)
Power requirements	2-channel models: powered from single USB 3.0 port 4-channel models: AC adaptor supplied. Can use 2 channels (plus MSO channels if fitted) powered by USB 3.0 or charging port supplying 1.2 A.
Dimensions	190 x 170 x 40 mm including connectors
Weight	< 0.5 kg
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
Environment	Up to 2000 m altitude and EN61010 pollution degree 2
Safety approvals	Designed to EN 61010-1:2010
EMC approvals	Tested to EN61326-1:2013 and FCC Part 15 Subpart B
Environmental approvals	RoHS and WEEE compliant
PC requirements	Processor, memory and disk space: as required by the operating system Port(s): USB 3.0 or USB 2.0
Total Satisfaction Guarantee	In the event that this product does not fully meet your requirements you can return it for an exchange or refund. To claim, the product must be returned in good condition within 14 days.
Warranty	5 years

Order your 5000D PicoScope Online:

Model
2 Channel	BANDWIDTH (MHz)	Product #	Price:
5242D	60	PQ143
5243D	100	PQ144
5244D	200	PQ145
5242D MSO	60	PQ149
5243D MSO	100	PQ150
5244D MSO	200	PQ151
4 Channel	BANDWIDTH (MHz)		Price:
5442D	60	PQ146
5443D	100	PQ147
5444D	200	PQ148
5442D MSO	60	PQ152
5443D MSO	100	PQ153
5444D MSO	200	PQ154