sharePicoScope 9000 Series Videos
These videos demonstrate some of the many features of PicoScope 9000 Series of Sampling Oscilloscopes.
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Basic Menu: Channels and Timebase
A closer look at the channel and timebase menu, including how to set amplitude and timebase to correctly display the signal.
Basic Menu Overview
Sampling oscilloscope expert Pete Darby gives a basic introduction to the PicoScope 9000 graphical user interface.
Basic Menu: Saving and Loading Captures
A brief introduction to saving and recalling waveforms and setups.
Basic Menu: Trigger, Acquisition, Display
A demonstration of trigger sources, acquisition and display settings used to further enhance the way data is displayed.
Application: Clock Characterisation
Characterising signals is a fundamental use for a sampling scope. Pete demonstrates how to make measurements such as rise/fall time and frequency, and also takes a closer look at anomalies.
Making Measurements
Using built-in measurements to characterise features of electrical signals saves time, and significantly improves measurement accuracy compared to visual and manual measurements.
Application: Jitter Measurement
Jitter measurement is fundamental to high-speed digital data applications. This video demonstrates 3 ways of measuring jitter using the PicoScope 9000. The data used is NRZ (non-return to zero).
Application: Eye Diagram Analysis
Pete uses Eye Diagrams to determine the characteristics of an RZ (return to zero) data signal.
Advanced Menus: Pattern Sync Trigger
Often a premium feature with sampling scopes, the PicoScope 9000’s built-in “pattern sync trigger” can step through an eye diagram one bit at a time to view the source of potential anomalies.
Application: Mask Testing
The PicoScope 9000 can be used for pre-compliance testing of data standards. One of the methods for this is mask testing. Here, mask testing is applied to an STM4 data stream eye diagram.
Advanced Menus: Spectrum Analyzer
The PicoScope 9000 includes FFT spectrum analyzer mode to view signals in the frequency domain. This video demonstrates a typical application comparing the phase angles between harmonics.
Advanced Menus: Channel Math
Pete presents examples using the different operands available for advanced mathematical operations on or between channels. Includes an interesting demonstration of how different window algorithms used in FFTs appear in the time domain.
Advanced Menus: Basic TDR
This video demonstrates the basics of using the TDR system on the PicoScope 9211A or 9231A sampling oscilloscope.
Advanced Menus: Generators
Pete demonstrates the features of the built-in dual multi-function signal generators fitted to the PicoScope 9211A and 9231A.
Application: SATA Cable Test Using TDR
TDR can be used for pre-compliance testing of SATA cables to determine impedance and length.
Application: Improving TDR Accuracy
This video shows the method of improving the accuracy of TDR acquisitions and measurements using the TDR Correction feature. Also includes a detailed demonstration of the calibration and set up of the TDR Correction feature.
Application: Improving TDT Accuracy
A method of improving the accuracy of TDT acquisitions and measurements using the TDT Correction feature. Includes a detailed demonstration of the calibration and setup of this feature.
Application: TDT Measurements
Fundamentals of making TDT measurements using the PicoScope 9211A or 9231A.
Advanced Menus: Optical Pattern Sync Trigger
The pattern sync trigger explained in the Advanced Menus: Pattern Sync Trigger video can also be used for optical signals. As Pete scans through the bits one at a time, the anomalies present in unfiltered optical signals can be isolated with ease.
Advanced Menus: Optical Signal Test
Basics of high-speed optical signal characterisation using a PicoScope 9221A or 9231A, includes configuration and dark level calibration. Also illustrates the need to use the Bessel-Thomson filter for compliance testing.
Application: Making Optical Measurements
Pete shows how to increase the accuracy of your measurements using the PicoScope 9000 when making rise-time measurements in optical signals that have a high level of uncertainty and jitter.