PicoScope 6000 Series reviews

Industry Awards

Pico Technology’s PicoScope 6000E Series PC-based oscilloscope with optional FlexRes capability won the prestigious Test Product of the Year 2020 trophy at the annual Elektra Awards hosted by Electronics Weekly.

The award was presented on March 25th 2021 at a virtual ceremony in the presence of an audience of leading industry professionals. The event has been a highlight of the industry calendar for 18 years, where leading figures from the electronics field gather to recognize the achievements of market leaders who are creating game-changing technologies that are helping to shape the future of the industry.

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Brian West
PicoScope 6404D

For the price the hardware is great. The software is good and capable of being great. We demoed a Rigol MS05354 (slightly better on paper) but the physical interface wasn’t great and neither was the USB interface to a computer. The PicoScope software allows fairly easy manipulation of all the hardware settings but the real advantage is the deep memory and the ability to capture the data right on the PC. If you only use a scope for seat of the pants debugging and never need to record actual data then most of the benchtop models would work well. Having said that, it would be nice if the software allowed you to manually enter the range for the X and Y axes, change the label for each channel, and choose what elements of the screen are included when you print the screen. Haven’t had enough time to really dig into all the feature but as of right now I’d highly recommend the 6404D.

Bosheng Jiang
PicoScope 6403C

It is good tool but it is necessary to increase the buffer capacity. The maximum 32 is really not enough.

J Mohanty
PicoScope 6404D

We have been using Picoscope 6404D for quite some time, and are amazed by its accuracy and powerful emulations while working with numerous signal evaluations. The compatibility of this device with various EDA tools and software environment is appreciable. The device is easy to operate, cumbersome in space utilisation and highly useful and recommendable for any signal processing compilations and hardware design simulations.

Humberto Moran
PicoScope 6407

Happy customer
I usually do not write reviews, but decided to take a bit of my time just to say that the 6407 in our lab is the BEST PIECE OF EQUIPMENT BY FAR!!!

It is simply amazing. Well done for a very good product!

Helmut Schoettner
PicoScope 6404D

Perfect Partner for Development of Encoder controlled Stepper Motor Actuators.
The 6403B/6404B or the current 6404D/C are the perfect partner for development of encoder controlled stepper motor actuators.

This type of device helped me a lot to develop the required hardware and software for rotation valves driven by own stepper motor driver circuitry with a encoder to find every valid positions in real-time in high speed.

Finding the best methods and filtering techniques for analyzing the encoder’s gaps and fixing the time offset caused by small but non-avoidable interrupt and software latency would never been possible so safely for whole encoder rotations in high accuracy with simpler DSOs with much less and non-segmented memory.

Since the included software is really stable, this type of device is a great tool for great tasks!

Industry comparison
	Frequency and power range	Sweep types, length and speed	Port interfaces and match	Dynamic range	Trace noise stability and accuracy	Features summary
Pico Technology PicoVNA 106 $5995	0.3 MHz to 6 GHz at 10 Hz resolution –20 to 6 dBm	Frequency: Linear CW Linear + Dwell Power: Linear up to 10001 pts at 5 s2p/ms*	N(f) ports with bias-Ts Load 46 / 16 dB Source 46 / 16 dB Directivity 47 dB	Typically: 118 dB @10 Hz Guaranteed: 108 dB 10–4000 MHz 100 dB 0.3–6000 MHz	± 0.005 dB RMS ± 0.02 dB/°C. Measured at maximum bandwidth. Transmission: ±0.1 dB, ±1° Reflection: ±0.5 dB, ±4°	Reference Offset, Embed / De-embed, Time Domain, P1dB utility, AM to PM utility
Copper Mountain Cobalt C1209 $22,495	0.1 MHz to 9 GHz at 1 Hz resolution –60 to 15 dBm	Frequency: Linear Logarithmic Segmented Power: Linear up to 500001 pts at 48 s2p/ms*	N(f) ports Load 46 / 20 dB Source 40 / 20 dB Directivity 46 / 20 dB	Typically: 162 dB @1 Hz Guaranteed: 148 dB 1–8000 MHz 138 dB 1–9000 MHz	± 0.001 dB RMS ± 0.02 dB/°C. Measured in 3 kHz bandwidth. Transmission: ±0.1 dB, ±1° Reflection: ±0.4 dB, ±3°	Reference Offset, Embed / De-embed, Time Domain, Time Gating, P1dB utility, Mixed Frequency
Copper Mountain S5065 $12,995	0.01 MHz to 6.5 GHz at 1 Hz resolution –50 to 5 dBm	Frequency: Linear Logarithmic Segmented Power: Linear up to 200001 pts at 7 s2p/ms*	N(f) ports Load 46 / 18 dB Source 40 / 18 dB Directivity 46 / 18 dB	Typically: 130 dB @1 Hz Guaranteed: 125 dB 0.3–4800 MHz 120 dB 0.3–6500 MHz 75 dB 0.1–6500 MHz	± 0.0021 dB RMS ± 0.02 dB/°C. Measured in 3 kHz bandwidth. Transmission: ±0.1 dB, ±1° Reflection: ±0.4 dB, ±3°	Reference Offset, Embed / De-embed, Time Domain, Time Gating, P1dB utility, Mixed Frequency
Anritsu Shockline MS46122B-010 $17,490	1 MHz to 8 GHz at 1 Hz resolution –20 to 5 dBm	Frequency: Linear CW + dwell Logarithmic Segmented up to 16001 pts at 3.8 s2p/ms*	N(f) ports Load 42 / 8 dB Source 33 / 8 dB Directivity 42 dB / 8 dB	Typically: 110 dB @10 Hz Guaranteed: ≥100 dB 10 MHz–8 GHz	± 0.006 dB RMS ± 0.02 dB/°C. Measured at maximum bandwidth. Transmission: ±0.08 dB, ±0.5° Reflection: ±0.37 dB, ±2.2°	Reference Offset, Embed / De-embed, Time Domain ($ opt), Time Gating ($ opt), Mixed Frequency, kQ product / ɳmax
Anritsu Shockline MS46322A-008 $22,973	0.05 MHz to 8 GHz at 1 Hz resolution –20 to 5 dBm	Frequency: Linear CW + dwell Logarithmic Segmented up to 16001 pts at 3.8 s2p/ms*	N(f) ports Load 42 / 8 dB Source 33 / 8 dB Directivity 42 dB / 8 dB	Typically: 115 dB @10 Hz Guaranteed: ≥100 dB 10 MHz–8 GHz	± 0.006 dB RMS ± 0.02 dB/°C. Measured at maximum bandwidth. Transmission: ±0.08 dB, ±0.5° Reflection: ±0.37 dB, ±2.2°	Reference Offset, Embed / De-embed, Time Domain ($ opt), Time Gating ($ opt), Mixed Frequency, kQ product / ɳmax
Tektronix TTR506A $12,000	0.1 MHz to 6 GHz at 1 Hz resolution –50 to 7 dBm	Frequency: Linear Logarithmic up to No spec. pts at No spec. s2p/ms*	N(f) ports with bias-Ts Load 37 / 7 dB Source 34 / 25 dB Directivity 36 / 25 dB	Typically: 122 dB @No spec. Hz Guaranteed: ≥124 dB typ. 2–200 MHz ≥125 dB 200 MHz–3 GHz ≥122 dB 3–6 GHz	± 0.008 dB RMS ± 0.015 dB/°C. Measured at maximum bandwidth. Transmission: ±0.2 dB, ±2° Reflection: ±No spec. dB, ±°	Reference Offset ? Embed / De-embed ?
Keysight ENA E5063A-265	0.1 MHz to 6.5 GHz at 1 Hz resolution –20 to 0 dBm	Frequency: Linear Logarithmic Segmented up to 10001 pts at 5 s2p/ms*	N(f) ports Load 45 / 11 dB Source 44 / 25 dB Directivity 52 / 25 dB	Typically: 122 dB @10 Hz Guaranteed: >93 dB 0.3–8.5 MHz >116 dB 8.5 MHz to 4.34 GHz >112 dB 4.43 GHz to 6.5 GHz	± 0.005 dB RMS ± 0.02 dB/°C. Measured at maximum bandwidth. Transmission: ±0.07 dB, ±0.5° Reflection: ±0.13 dB, ±0.9°	Reference Offset, Embed / De-embed, Time Domain ($ opt), kQ product / ɳmax
Rohde & Schwarz ZVL6 $28,485	0.009 MHz to 6 GHz at 1 Hz resolution –50 to 10 dBm	Frequency: Linear Logarithmic Segmented up to 4001 pts at 3.3 s2p/ms*	N(f) ports Load 46 / 14 dB Source 40 / 14 dB Directivity 46 / - dB	Typically: 123 dB @10 Hz Guaranteed: >115 dB 20 MHz to 5 GHz >105 dB 7 MHz to 6 GHz	± 0.005 dB RMS ± 0.02 dB/°C. Measured at maximum bandwidth. Transmission: ±0.2 dB,± 2° Reflection: ±1 dB, ±6°	Reference Offset, Time Domain ($ opt), Time Gating ($ opt)
All prices and specifications retrieved from manufacturer/distributors on June 1^st 2017

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PicoScope 6000 Series reviews

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