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PicoScope 6804E |
PicoScope 6824E |
| Input channels |
8 |
| Bandwidth (–3dB) |
500 MHz |
| Rise time |
< 850 ps |
| Bandwidth limit |
20 MHz, selectable |
| Vertical resolution |
8 bits fixed |
8, 10 or 12 bits FlexRes |
Enhanced vertical resolution
(software) |
Up to 4 extra bits beyond ADC resolution |
| Input type |
Single-ended BNC connector |
| Input characteristics |
1 MΩ ±0.5% in parallel with 12 pF ±1 pF, or 50 Ω ±2% |
| Input coupling |
1 MΩ AC/DC or 50 Ω DC |
| Input sensitivity |
2 mV/div to 4 V/div (10 vertical divisions) |
| Input ranges (full scale) |
1 MΩ ranges: ±10 mV, ±20 mV, ±50 mV, ±100 mV, ±200 mV, ±500 mV, ±1 V, ±2 V, ±5 V, ±10V, ±20 V 50 Ω ranges: ±10 mV, then as above up to ±5 V |
| DC gain accuracy |
±(1.5% of signal + 1 LSB) |
±(0.5% of signal + 1 LSB) |
| DC offset accuracy |
±(1% of full scale + 250 µV) Offset accuracy can be improved by using the “zero offset” function in PicoScope 6. |
LSB size
(quantization step size) |
8 bits: < 0.4 % of input range |
8 bits: < 0.4 % of input range
10 bits: < 0.1 % of input range
12 bits: < 0.025 % of input range |
Analog offset range
(vertical position adjustment) |
±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 DC accuracy above |
| Overvoltage protection |
1 MΩ ranges: ±100 V (DC + AC peak) up to 10 kHz
50 Ω ranges: 5.5 V RMS |
| Input channels |
Up to 16 channels (2 ports of 8 channels) |
| Maximum detectable input frequency |
500 MHz (1 Gb/s) |
| Minimum detectable pulse width |
1 ns |
| Input connector (probe tip) |
Staggered signal and ground pin sockets for each channel, to accept 0.64 - 0.89 mm round or 0.64 mm square pin, 2.54 mm pitch |
| Input impedance |
101 kΩ ±1% in parallel with 3.5 pF ±0.5 pF |
| Threshold range and resolution |
±8 V in 5 mV steps |
| Threshold accuracy |
±(100 mV + 3% of threshold setting) |
| 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 |
| Maximum input voltage at probe tip |
±40 V up to 10 MHz, derated linearly to ±5 V at 500 MHz |
Minimum input voltage swing
(at 500 MHz) |
400 mV peak to peak |
| Hysteresis (at DC) |
PicoScope 6: Fixed hysteresis approx. 100 mV.
Using PicoSDK, selectable hysteresis per port:
Low: approx 50 mV
Normal: approx 100 mV
High: approx 200 mV
Very high: approx 400 mV |
| Minimum input slew rate |
No minimum slew rate requirement |
| Maximum sampling rate (real time, 8-bit mode) |
Up to 2 total analog channels and/or digital ports: 5 GS/s*
Up to 4 total analog channels and/or digital ports: 2.5 GS/s*
Up to 8 total analog channels and/or digital ports: 1.25 GS/s
All other combinations: 625 MS/s |
Maximum sampling rate
(real time, 10-bit mode) |
N/A |
1 analog channel or digital port: 5 GS/s
Up to 2 total analog channels and/or digital ports: 2.5 GS/s
(not applicable with the following channel combinations: AB, CD, EF, GH)
Up to 4 total analog channels and/or digital ports: 1.25 GS/s
Up to 8 total analog channels and/or digital ports: 625 MS/s
All other combinations: 312.5 MS/s |
Maximum sampling rate
(real time, 12-bit mode) |
N/A |
1.25 GS when using one channel from ABCD and/or one channel from EFGH, plus any digital ports. |
Max. sampling rate, USB streaming mode, PicoScope 6
(split between active channels, PC dependent) |
~20 MS/s on USB 3.0 |
| Max. sampling rate, USB streaming mode, PicoSDK (split between active channels, PC dependent) |
~312 MS/s on USB 3.0 |
~312 MS/s on USB 3.0 (8-bit mode) ~156 MS/s on USB 3.0 (10/12-bit modes) |
Capture memory
(shared between active channels) |
2 GS |
4 GS (2 GS at 10/12-bit)
Max. single capture in PicoScope 6: 2 GS
Max. single capture with PicoSDK: 4 GS. |
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; PicoSDK: 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 |
| Input characteristics |
Hi-Z, AC coupled (> 1 kΩ at 10 MHz) |
| Input frequency range |
10 MHz ±50 ppm |
| Input connector |
Rear panel BNC, dedicated |
| Input level |
200 mV to 3.3 V peak to peak |
| Overvoltage protection |
±5 V peak max |
| Crosstalk |
±10 mV to ±1 V ranges: better than 1200:1 up to full bandwidth (equal voltage ranges) ±2 V to ±20 V ranges: better than 300:1 up to full bandwidth (equal voltage ranges) |
| Harmonic distortion, 8-bit mode |
–50 dB at 1 MHz full scale |
| Harmonic distortion, 10/12-bit mode |
N/A |
–60 dB at 1 MHz full scale |
| SFDR, 8-bit mode |
> 50 dB on ±50 mV to ±20 V ranges |
| SFDR, 10/12-bit mode |
N/A |
> 60 dB on ±50 mV to ±20 V ranges |
| Noise, 8-bit mode |
< 200 μV RMS on most sensitive range |
| Noise, 10/12-bit mode |
N/A |
< 150 μV RMS on most sensitive range |
| Linearity, 8-bit mode |
< 2 LSB |
| Linearity, 10-bit mode |
N/A |
< 4 LSB |
| 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 |
| Source |
Any analog channel, AUX trigger, plus digital ports with optional TA369 MSO pod |
| 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 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 |
| Maximum pre-trigger capture |
100% of capture size |
| Maximum post trigger delay |
PicoScope 6: up to 0.8 s at fastest time base
PicoSDK: > 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: 2 million waveforms in 0.6 s |
| Trigger time-stamping |
Single sample-interval resolution, relative to previous waveform. Resets when any settings are changed. |
| Connector type |
Rear-panel BNC |
| Trigger types (triggering scope) |
Edge, pulse width, dropout, interval, logic |
| Input bandwidth |
> 10 MHz |
| Input characteristics |
2.5 V CMOS high-Z input |
| Threshold range |
Fixed threshold, 1.25 V nominal |
| Hysteresis |
1 V max (VIH < 1.75V, VIL > 0.75V) |
| Coupling |
DC |
| Overvoltage protection |
±20 V peak max |
| Standard output signals |
Sine, square, triangle, DC voltage, ramp up, ramp down, sinc, Gaussian, half-sine |
| Standard signal frequency |
Sine: 100 μHz to 50 MHz
Square: 100 μHz to 50 MHz
Other waves: 100 μHz to 1 MHz |
| Output frequency accuracy |
Oscilloscope time base accuracy ± output frequency resolution |
| Output frequency resolution |
0.002 ppm |
| 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 are possible via PicoSDK with some restrictions |
| Sweep frequency resolution |
In PicoScope 6 software: 0.075 Hz
Sweep frequency resolution down to 100 μHz is possible via 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| DC accuracy |
±(0.5% of output voltage + 20 mV) |
| 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) |
| 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 load) |
| Output resistance |
50 Ω ±3% |
| Connector type |
Rear panel BNC |
| Overvoltage protection |
±20 V peak max |
| Update rate |
Variable from < 1 S/s to 200 MS/s with < 0.02 ppm resolution |
| Buffer size |
40 kS |
| Vertical resolution |
14 bits (output step size < 1 mV) |
| Bandwidth |
No filter: 100 MHz
Filtered: 50 MHz |
| Rise time (10% to 90%) |
No filter: 3.5 ns
Filtered: 6 ns |
| Sweep modes, triggering, frequency accuracy and resolution, voltage range and accuracy and output characteristics as for function generator. |
| Active probe interface |
Active probe interface on four channels supporting A6000 Series active probes. Probe interface supplies power and controls the active probe. |
| Probe detection |
Automatic detection of P2056 10:1 oscilloscope probe |
| Probe compensation pin |
1 kHz, 2 V peak to peak square wave, 600 Ω |
| Probe compensation pin rise time |
< 50 ns |
| Frequency range |
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 |
| 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 to H (input channels), T (time), reference waveforms, pi, 1D0 to 2D7 (digital channels), constants |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Protocols |
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 |
| Statistics |
Pass/fail, failure count, total count |
| Mask creation |
User-drawn, table entry, auto-generated from waveform or imported from file |
| Interpolation |
Linear or sin(x)/x |
| Persistence modes |
Digital color, analog intensity, custom, fast |
| 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 |
| PC connectivity |
USB 3.0 SuperSpeed (USB 2.0 compatible) |
| PC connector type |
USB Type B |
| Power requirement |
12 V DC from supplied PS016 PSU. Up to 7 A including powered accessories. |
| Ground terminal |
Functional ground terminal accepting wire or 4 mm plug, rear panel |
| Dimensions |
245 x 192 x 61.5 mm |
| MSO digital interface cable length |
500 mm (scope to pod) |
| MSO probe flying lead length |
225 mm (pod to probe tip) |
| MSO pod size |
75 x 55 x 18.2 mm |
| MSO probe size |
34.5 x 2.5 x 6.7 mm (including ground pin) |
| Weight |
2.2 kg (scope only)
5.6 kg (in carry case with PSU and cables) |
| Temperature range |
Operating: 0 to 40 °C
For quoted accuracy after 20 minutes warm-up: 15 to 30 °C
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: “only non-conductive pollution occurs except that occasionally a temporary conductivity caused by condensation is expected” |
| IP rating |
IP20 |
| Safety compliance |
Designed to EN 61010-1:2010 |
| EMC compliance |
Tested to EN 61326-1:2013 and FCC Part 15 Subpart B |
| Environmental compliance |
RoHS & WEEE compliance |
| Software |
PicoScope 6: All supported Windows operating systems. Beta software also available for 64-bit Linux and macOS. PicoSDK: All supported Windows operating systems. Drivers also available for 64-bit Linux and macOS. Users writing their own apps can find example programs for all platforms on the Pico Technology organization |
| PC requirements |
Processor, memory and disk space: as required by the operating system
Ports: USB 3.0 (recommended) or 2.0 (compatible) |
| Warranty |
5 years |