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PicoScope 9000 Sampling scope
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 Introducing
the New Face of Sampling Oscilloscopes
•20 GHz
(17.5 ps) and 12 GHz (30 ps) models
•16 bit resolution
Small enough to be applied directly to the device under
test, or close by, Pico Sampling Oscilloscopes are extremely
high-performance and cost-effective measuring instruments
for high-speed digital, communications, RF and microwave
applications.
Sampling Oscilloscopes achieve better
bandwidth and timing resolution than their traditional
oscilloscope counterparts. They do this by sampling the
signal more slowly, but right at the input connector. A
sampling oscilloscope builds a waveform display as the input
signal repeats and is not suited to single-shot capture
applications. The true power of a sampling oscilloscope is
realised when the signals to be measured have a repeating or
cyclic pattern, or a steady data rate.
Sampling
Oscilloscopes typically have high resolution, an input
impedance of 50 Ω and a single gain range. Active probes and
external attenuators are added to achieve high impedance
measurement and wider dynamic range.
Big Performance from Little Packages
•Trigger rate to 14 GHz & clock recovery to 11.3 Gb/s
•Timing resolution down to 0.064 ps
•Fastest available
waveform builds!
With the fastest available sampling
rate, Pico sampled waveforms and persistence displays are
captured three times faster than competing sampling
oscilloscopes, which are often bulky and three times the
price.
With their powerful and unique trigger,
hold-off and acquisition features, Pico samplers can lock to
repeating signal features with minimal jitter. All models
have trigger pre-scalers (frequency dividers) to allow
triggering at up to 14 GHz, while the comprehensive
acquisition modes, trigger modes and timebase ranges can
display frequency below 100 Hz through to an effective
sampling rate of 15 TS/s!
Some Pico models include a
clock recovery input. An external divider feeds a serial
data stream to the sampler input and the clock recovery
module, which then regenerates a clock to define data
transitions and valid data. Using clock recovery, Pico
Sampling Oscilloscopes can display eye diagrams and apply
standard communications masks using only a received data
stream.
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Auto measurements
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18 X (time) parameters
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17 Y parameters
• 13 Channel to channel
with or without statistics
• 15 NRZ Time
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27 NRZ Y parameters with or without statistics
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17 RZ time parameters
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26 RZ Y parameters with or without statistics
• 5 FFT parameters
• 138 Total measurements
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Powerful, Intuitive, Uncluttered Software
•Flexible control-menu user interface
•Click and drag on
display to zoom
•Informative colour density profiling
•Histograms and numeric statistics
Pico's
PicoSampleTM software for Windows is included, presenting a
user-configurable, intuitive interface on Windows XP, 7 or 8
platforms and all supported display resolutions.
Comprehensive controls are presented in easy-access menus
either side of the trace display area. You can select the
controls you need, and hide the rest to reduce clutter.
Multiple trace windows support colour or density
profiling, vertical or horizontal histograms and 138
pre-defined trace, eye and statistical measurements; up to
ten tabulated simultaneously.
167 standard serial
data communications masks are included with user margin,
editing and custom mask compilation.
61 trace math
functions can be applied using buttons or a formula editor.
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Comms Masks
1.54 Mb/s to 12.5 Gb/s
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11 Comms standard
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11 SONET/SDH
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10 Ethernet
• 31 Fibre Channel
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41 PCI Express
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16 InfiniBand
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4 XAUI
• 9 RapidIO
• 24 SAta
• 14 ITU G.703
• 7
ANSI T1.102
• 1 G.984.2
• 167 Total masks
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Time Domain Reflectometry and Optical Fibre
Interface
•Optional kits to address TDR / TDT
mismatch, loss and network analysis
A fast pulse
launched into a transmission line or network propagates
according to the losses and mismatches of that line. A
sampling oscilloscope can resolve amplitudes and delays and
thus analyse the network similarly to a Scalar or Vector
Network Analyser. The display of distance to, or length of,
a mismatch allows efficient and intuitive fault location.
The PicoScope 9211 and 9231 include the fast edge
generator and accessories required for TDR / TDT analysis.
The software measures voltage, impedance, conductance, dB
and distance and includes a calibration function.
•8 Gb/s
Optical to Electrical conversion
serial data and
comms waveform measurement and mask testing can be extended
into optical fibre systems using Pico's 2.7 Gb/s Optical to
Electrical converter and the Clock Recovery module. The
PicoScope 9221A and 9231A integrate these with a PRBS
pattern trigger. SMA Pulse Correction Filters are available.
Deep foundation, heritage and experience
•microwave Design and Metrology founded on a 40 year history
Based in Eastern Europe, the RF & microwave design team
can call upon four decades of experience in leading-edge
microwave measurement, sampling and fast pulse hardware and
software design. That history, and a "do more for less"
ethos, led naturally to Pico's New Face of Sampling
Oscilloscopes, the
9000 series of PC-based Samplers,
first the 9200 at 12 GHz and now the 9300 at 20 GHz.
Users of the 9200 series will find the PicoSample 3 software
familiar, with its built-in metrology experience and design
expertise, as well as benefitting from the improvements in
the new release.
There is a rich library of video,
document and support material behind the links below.
Information based on the 9200 product family applies equally
to the 9300 and PicoSample 3.
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Verschillen PicoScope 9000 serie |
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9201A |
9211A |
9221A |
9231A |
9301 |
9302 |
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12/20Ghz Sampling oscilloscope |
12Ghz |
12Ghz |
12Ghz |
12Ghz |
20Ghz |
20Ghz |
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| LAN Port |
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| Clock recovery
trigger |
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| Pattern sync
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| Dual signal
generator outputs |
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| Electrical TDR/TDT
capability |
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| 8Ghz
optical-electrical converter |
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Channels (vertical) |
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Channels |
2 (simultaneous acquisition) |
Bandwidth
Full
Narrow |
DC to 12 GHz
DC to 8 GHz |
Pulse response rise time
Full bandwidth
Narrow
bandwidth |
10% to 90%, calculated from Tr - 0.35/BW
29.2 ps
43.7 ps |
RMS noise, maximum
Full bandwidth
Narrow bandwidth
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averaging |
2 mV
1.5 mV
100 µV system
limit |
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Scale factors (sensitivity) |
2 mV/div to 500 mV/div.
1-2-5
sequence and 0.5% fine increments |
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Nominal input impedance |
(50 ±1) Ω |
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Input connectors |
SMA (F) |
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Timebase (horizontal) |
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Timebases |
10 ps/div to 50 ms/div
(main, intensified, two delayed, or dual
delayed) |
Delta time interval accuracy
For horizontal scale >
450 ps/div
For horizontal scale = 450
ps/div |
±0.2% of Delta Time Interval ±15 ps
at a temperature within ±3 °C of horizontal
calibration temperature.
±15 ps or ±5%
of Delta Time Interval ±5 ps, whichever is
smaller at a temperature within ±3 °C of
horizontal calibration temperature. |
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Time interval resolution |
200 fs minimum |
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Trigger |
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Trigger sources |
External direct trigger, external
prescaled trigger, internal clock trigger,
clock recovery trigger (not 9201A) |
Direct trigger bandwidth and sensitivity
DC to 100 MHz
100 MHz
to 1 GHz |
100 mV p-p
Increasing
linearly from 100 mV p-p to 200 mV p-p |
Prescaled trigger bandwidth and sensitivity
1 to 7 GHz
7 to 8 GHz
8 to 10 GHz typical |
200 MV p-p to 2 V p-p
300 mV
p-p to 1 V p-p
400 mV p-p to 1 V p-p |
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Trigger RMS jitter, maximum |
4 ps + 20 ppm of delay setting |
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Data Acquisition |
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ADC resolution |
16 bits |
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Digitising rate |
DC to 200 kHz maximum |
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Acquisition modes |
Sample (normal), average, envelope |
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Data record length |
32 to 4096 points maximum per channel in
x2 sequence |
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Display |
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Display resolution |
Variable |
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Display style |
Dots, vectors, variable or infinite
persistence, variable or infinite grey
scaling, variable or infinite colour grading |
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Measurement and Analysis |
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Marker |
Vertical bars, horizontal bars (measure
volts) or waveform markers (x and +) |
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Automatic measurements |
Up to 40 automatic pulse measurements |
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Histogram |
Vertical or horizontal |
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Mathematics |
Up to four math waveforms can be defined
and displayed |
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FFT |
Up to two fast Fourier transforms can be
run simultaneously with the built–in filters
(rectangular, Nicolson, Hann, flat-top,
Blackman–Harris and Kaiser–Bessel) |
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Eye diagram |
Automatically characterises NRZ and RZ
eye patterns. Measurements are based on
statistical analysis of the waveform. |
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Mask test |
Acquired signals are tested for fit
outside areas defined by up to eight
polygons. Standard or user–defined masks can
be selected. |
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Clock Recovery and Pattern Sync Trigger
(PicoScope 9211A only) |
Clock recovery sensitivity
12.3 Mb/s to 1 Gb/s
1
Gb/s to 2.7 Gb/s |
50 mV p-p
100 mV p-p
Continuous rate |
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Pattern sync trigger |
10 Mb/s to 8 Gb/s with pattern length
from 7 to 65,535 max. |
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Recover clock RMS trigger jitter, maximum |
1 ps + 1.0% of unit interval |
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Maximum safe trigger input voltage |
±2 V (DC + peak AC) |
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Trigger input connector |
SMA (F) |
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Signal Generator Output (PicoScope 9211A
and 9231A) |
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Rise/fall times |
100 ps (20% to 80%) typical |
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Modes |
Step, coarse timebase, pulse, NRZ, RZ |
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Optical–electrical (O/E) Converter
(PicoScope 9221A and 9231A) |
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Unfiltered bandwidth |
DC to 8 GHz typical.
DC to 7 GHz
guaranteed at full electrical bandwidth |
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Effective wavelength range |
750 nm to 1650 nm |
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Calibrated wavelengths |
850 nm (MM), 1310 nm (MM/SM), 1550 nm
(SM) |
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Transition time |
10% to 90% calculated from Tr - 0.48 /
BW: 60 ps max. |
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RMS noise, maximum |
4 µW (1310 and 1550 nm), 6 µW (850 nm) |
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Scale factors (sensitivity) |
1 µV/div to 400 µV/div (full scale is 8
divisions) |
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DC accuracy, typical |
±25 µW ±10% of vertical scale |
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Maximum input peak power |
+7 dBm (1310 nm) |
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Fiber input |
Single-mode (SM) or multi–mode (MM) |
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Fiber input connector |
FC/PC |
Input return loss
SM
MM |
-24 dB, typical
-16 dB, typical;
-14 dB, maximum |
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PC Requirements |
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Processor |
1 GHz |
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Memory |
512 miB |
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Disk space |
PicoScope 9000 software requires
aproximately 30 miB |
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Operating system |
32–bit edition of Windows XP (SP3), 32–
or 64–bit edition of Windows Vista, Windows
7 or Windows 8 (not Windows RT) |
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Ports |
USB 1.1 compliant port minimum.
USB
2.0 compliant port recommended. |
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Environmental |
Operating environment
Temperature range
Humidity
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+5 °C to +35 °C for normal operation
+15 °C to 25 °C for stated accuracy
Up to
85% RH, non–condensing, at +25 °C |
Storage environment
Temperature range
Humidity |
-20 °C to +50 °C
Up to 95% RH,
non–condensing |
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Physical Properties |
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Dimensions |
170 x 255 x 40 mm (6.7 x 10.0 x 1.6
in) |
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Weight |
1.1 kg max (2.3 lb) |
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Software |
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PicoScope 9000 for Windows |
PicoScope 9000 software is capable of
many advanced features such as mathematical
analysis, histogram analysis, eye-diagram
analysis and mask testing. All features are
included as standard. Updates can be
downloaded for free. |
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Software development kit |
The
SDK
allows you to control the scope from your
own program. The software can act as an
ActiveX COM server, allowing any program to
send commands to it using a standard Windows
protocol. This is ideal for production–test
environments where multiple scopes need to
be controlled from a single PC, or where
automated tests need to be run. The SDK
contains full documentation and example code
for various programming languages. |
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Language Support |
Documentation
User’s
guide
Quick start guide
Programmer’s
guide |
English
English
English |
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General |
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Data sheet |
English,
中文 (简体),
Deutsch,
Español,
Français,
Italiano |
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Additional hardware (supplied) |
2 x SMA M-F connector savers (supplied
fitted to scope)
Additional SMA M-F
connector saver (9221A and 9231A only)
TDR Accessory Kit (PicoScope 9211A and 9231A
only)
LAN patch and crossover cables
(9211A and 9231A only)
USB 2.0 cable
AC adaptor
Tough carry case |
TDR Accessory Kit contents
(supplied with
PicoScope 9211A and 9231A only) |
30 cm precision cable
80 cm precision
cable
0 Ω short
50 Ω terminator
Coupler
Resistive power divider
SMA
wrench |
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PC connection |
USB 2.0 (USB 1.1 compatible) |
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LAN connection |
10/100 Mb/s (PicoScope 9211A and 9231A
only) |
Power supply
PicoScope
9201A
PicoScope 9211A
PicoScope 9221A
PicoScope 9231A
AC adaptor |
+6 V DC ±5%. @ 1.9 A max
+6 V DC ±5%. @ 2.6 A max
+6 V DC ±5%. @ 2.3 A max
+6 V DC ±5%. @ 2.9 A max
Mains
adaptor supplied for USA, UK, Europe and
Australasia |
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Compliance |
FCC (EMC), CE (EMC and LVD) |
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Warranty |
2 years (1 year for input sampler) |
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