PicoScope 4444 low pass filter API

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labnet
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PicoScope 4444 low pass filter API

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Within the PS6 app, you can enable a 1Mhz and 100kHz analog low pass filter.

Q1: What is the response of the filter
Q2: I can't find the API command to enable the analog filter.

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Re: PicoScope 4444 low pass filter API

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Hi labnet,

To answer your questions:

The filter response is a roll-off of 20dB/decade as it's a single pole filter.
The filter is implemented in our PicoScope 6 software only. The example files from Github that accompany the SDK only give you essential functions for pulling data from the hardware scopes, so that you have a basic platform on which to build your own functions.

Regards,

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Re: PicoScope 4444 low pass filter API

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Can I request that this function be added to the API.

Not being able to enable the hardware filters means we are now going to have to build external anti alias filters.

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Re: PicoScope 4444 low pass filter API

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The function is in the API, currently not coded into the ps4000a examples as these cover scopes that don't have the feature.

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ps4000aSetBandwidthFilter() – enable the bandwidth limiter
PICO_STATUS ps4000aSetBandwidthFilter
(
int16_t handle, PS4000A_CHANNEL channel, PS4000A_BANDWIDTH_LIMITER bandwidth
)
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Re: PicoScope 4444 low pass filter API

Post by labnet »

I just came to post the same thing!

[DllImport(_DRIVER_FILENAME, EntryPoint = "ps4000aSetBandwidthFilter")]
public static extern UInt32 SetBandwidthFilter(
short handle,
Channel channel,
BandwidthLimiter bandwidth
);

Thanks for replying.

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