PicoScope 7 Software
Available on Windows, Mac and Linux
PicoScope 7 Software
Available on Windows, Mac and Linux
OEM & custom applications
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Your initial maths was wrong but the principal was correct.Hello
The published Time Base Accuracy of the PICO 3206B USB Oscilloscope is ±50 ppm. I am struggling to understand what this acually means. My current understanding is; if the sample rate of the instrument is set to 4ns (250Msps) the 4ns sample rate may have an error of ±50 ppm (±80fs). Over the whole sample range (128 MSamples, 64M x 4ns = 0.256seconds) will give rise to a ±5.12us possible error.
Have I understood this timebase accuracy figure correctly?
Many thanks
Hm.Martyn wrote: ±50 ppm or, to make it easier, ±0.005% would mean 20ps on an individual sample interval of 4ns
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