PicoScope 7 Software
Available on Windows, Mac and Linux
This is not a bug, you are at the limits of the hardware, and are then applying software techniques to the collected signal that are not suitable.Ax2_ wrote:Please consider this as a bug: I'm not buying an explanation why 5 Vpp shows 1 Vpp on scope screen. This is a measurement device after all.
If you require a greater vertical accuracy then you would need to look at a scope that can handle 10 or 12 bits in the hardware such as the 5000 series.Resolution enhancement is a technique for increasing the effective vertical resolution of the scope at the expense of high-frequency detail. In some scope operating modes PicoScope may reduce the number of samples available to maintain display performance.
For this technique to work, the signal must contain a very small amount of Gaussian noise, but for many practical applications this is generally supplied by the scope itself and the noise inherent in normal signals.
The resolution enhancement feature uses a flat moving-average filter. This acts as a low-pass filter with good step response characteristics and a very slow roll-off from the pass-band to the stop-band.
Some side-effects will be observed when using resolution enhancement. These are normal and can be counteracted by reducing the amount of enhancement used, increasing the number of samples captured or changing the timebase. Trial and error is usually the best way to find the optimum resolution enhancement for your application. The side-effects include:
Widened and flattened impulses (spikes)
Vertical edges (such as those of square waves) turned into straight-line slopes
Inversion of the signal (sometimes making it look as if the trigger point is on the wrong edge)
A flat line (when there are not enough samples in the waveform)