T&M Newsletter: October 2019

Test and Measurement News

October 2019

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This month at Pico...

...we've got probes galore (including a video on the PicoConnect 900 Series), a look at the surprisingly versatile PicoScope 2000 Series and news about PicoLog 6 and clock and data recovery on the PicoScope 9400 Series. We also look at how UHD displays deliver more waveform detail.

Check out our events list to see which shows we'll be attending this month and next, or the careers section if you'd like to join the Pico team!

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We know you know about our scopes and data loggers, but do you know just how wide our choice of probes and accessories is? Take a look and you'll find we've got just the products to meet your needs.

Standard passive probes

The TA375 100 MHz and TA386 200 MHz 1:1/10:1 switchable probes have durable cables and removable probe tips.

Additional sets of rigid probe tips (TA384) are available from our website. Alternatively, you might prefer a set of spring probe tips (TA385).

Gigabit browsing probes

Ideal for fingertip browsing or for soldering into place, the PicoConnect 900 Series probes are compact, low-invasive and low-capacitance, suitable for RF, microwave and gigabit applications up to 18 Gb/s (9 GHz).

Available individually or in great value sets of six. See them in action in this month's video!

Current probes

Current probes are safe, simple and accurate, allowing you to make measurements without breaking the circuit.

Our range includes Hall-effect clamps and Rogowski coil probes with standard BNC and 4 mm connectors, plus three probes specially designed for the intelligent probe interface of the PicoScope 4444.

Sensors

We sell a wide range of temperature probes and thermocouples for the PT-104 and TC-08 temperature data loggers, along with various sensors for the DrDAQ multipurpose data logger, but did you know about our single- and three-axis accelerometers for PicoScope?

With a measurement range of ±5 g, and a frequency range of DC to 350 Hz, these work best with the high-resolution PicoScope 4000 or 5000 Series devices.

Our RF business development manager, Mark Ashcroft, demonstrates the clean pulse responses of the PicoConnect 900 Series RF and microwave passive test probes.

Decode up to 18 serial protocols, including Manchester and DALI

2-channel, 4-channel or 2+16 channel MSO models • 10 to 100 MHz bandwidth
Max. sampling rate up to 1 GS/s • 8 ksample to 128 Msample capture memory
Great functionality in an ultra-compact package

From US$115 / €119 / £79

PicoLog 6.1.13 is now stable, with full support for macOS 10.15 (Catalina) and the Gatekeeper security feature.

Ever set a capture going, then run out of disk space? This new release predicts how much space your data will take up, and warns you before you start, so there are no nasty surprises!

We'd also like to thank our Raspberry Pi customers – you make up over 50% of all our Linux users!

Clock and data recovery is now available as an optional trigger feature on our new PicoScope 9404-16 SXRTO (sampler extended real time oscilloscope) as well as the existing PicoScope 9404-05.

When fitted, the CDR option can be selected as the trigger source from any input channel. Two SMA(f) outputs on the rear panel also allow other instruments or downstream system elements to benefit from recovered clock and recovered data signals.

PicoScope paints a thousand words – with 8 million pixels!

As electronic designs become more sophisticated, the complexity of prototype debugging increases. Engineers need to see multiple signals including time- and frequency-domain waveforms, decoded serial bus tables and more.

PicoScope instruments and software use the host computer display, so if that display is one of the new generation of affordable 4K UHD monitors, you have 3840 x 2160 resolution, providing correlated views of multiple waveforms and data from the device under test.

This type of display particularly benefits the high-resolution PicoScope 4000 and 5000 Series oscilloscopes, but will dramatically improve the performance of any PicoScope oscilloscope.

Automotive Testing Expo The Suburban Collection Showplace, Novi, Michigan, USA Stand 9026	22–24	October
IEEE COMCAS David Intercontinental Hotel, Tel Aviv, Israel Booths 13-14	4–6	November
Productronica Messe München, Munich, Germany	12–15	November

Are you an electronics engineer looking for a change? We're looking for a new hardware engineer to join us in our St Neots office, working on the next generation of PC oscilloscopes.

If you're just starting out, we've also got graduate and junior positions for hardware engineers (in St Neots) and software engineers (all locations).

To find out more about any of these positions, or to make a speculative application, visit our careers website today.

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