PicoScope 2000 Series oscilloscopes

Waveform buffer and navigator

Ever spotted a glitch on a waveform, but by the time you’ve stopped the scope it’s gone? With

PicoScope you no longer need to worry about missing glitches or other transient events, as it can

store the last 10 000 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. When carrying out a mask limit test, you can also set the

navigator to show only mask fails, enabling you to find any glitches quickly.

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, generate a mask around it and then use the alarms to automatically save any waveform (complete with a time stamp) that violates the mask. PicoScope 6 will capture any

intermittent glitches and show a failure count in the Measurements window (which you can still use for other measurements). You can also set the waveform buffer navigator to

show only mask fails, enabling you to find any glitches quickly.

Mask files are easy to edit (numerically or graphically), import and export, and you can simultaneously run mask limit tests on multiple channels and in multiple viewports.

Alarms

You can program PicoScope 6 to execute actions when

certain events occur.

The events that can trigger an alarm include mask limit

fails, trigger events and buffers full.

PicoScope 6 actions include saving a file, playing a

sound, executing a program and triggering the arbitrary

waveform generator.