Thanks for your reply. The appnote you referred me to was very informative. :) I am evaluating a PS5203 now, and the USB transfer rate seems good except that every sample is transferred as 16 bits. Since the low bytes are always 0 (the scope has an 8-bit ADC), this is a mere waste of USB bandwidth. ...

We need to take a single-shot capture and transfer the contents of the entire acquisition buffer to the PC via USB 2.0. 1. What is the maximum achievable transfer rate using the ps5000.dll API? (application written in C) 2. Is there any difference in USB transfer rate among the various Picoscope ser...