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PicoScope 4424A |
| Vertical |
| Input channels |
4 |
| Connector type |
BNC |
| Bandwidth (−3 dB) |
20 MHz (50 mV to 50 V ranges)
10 MHz (10 mV and 20 mV ranges) |
| Rise time (calculated) |
17.5 ns (50 mV to 50 V ranges)
35.0 ns (10 mV and 20 mV ranges) |
| Vertical resolution |
12 bits |
| Software-enhanced vertical resolution |
Up to 16 bits |
| Input type |
Single-ended |
| Input ranges |
±10 mV to ±50 V full scale, in 12 ranges |
| Input sensitivity |
2 mV/div to 10 V/div (10 vertical divisions) |
| Input coupling |
AC / DC |
| Maximum input voltage |
±50 V DC / 42.4 V pk max AC |
| Input characteristics |
1 MΩ ∥ 19 pF |
| DC accuracy |
±(1% of full scale + 300 µV) |
| Analog offset range (vertical position adjustment) |
±250 mV (10 mV to 500 mV ranges)
±2.5 V (1 V to 5 V ranges)
±25 V (10 V to 50 V ranges) |
| Analog offset control accuracy |
±1% of offset setting additional to basic DC accuracy |
| Overvoltage protection |
±100 V (DC + AC peak) |
| Horizontal timebase |
| Maximum sampling rate (real-time) |
80 MS/s (up to four channels in use)
40 MS/s (five or more channels in use) |
| Maximum sampling rate (USB 3.0 streaming) |
20 MS/s using PicoScope 6 software, shared between channels
80 MS/s max. for a single channel using PicoSDK. 160 MS/s total across all channels. (PC-dependent) |
| Timebase ranges (real-time) |
20 ns/div to 5000 s/div |
| Buffer memory (shared between active channels) |
256 MS |
| Buffer memory (streaming mode) |
100 MS in PicoScope software. Up to available PC memory when using PicoSDK |
| Waveform buffer |
10 000 segments (rapid block mode)
10 000 waveforms (PicoScope 6 circular buffer) |
| Timebase accuracy |
±20 ppm (+5 ppm/year) |
| Sampling jitter |
25 ps RMS typical |
| Dynamic performance (typical) |
| Crosstalk (full bandwidth) |
−76 dB |
| Harmonic distortion |
< −60 dB, 10 mV range
< −70 dB, 20 mV and higher ranges |
| SFDR |
> 60 dB, 20 mV and 10 mV ranges
> 70 dB, 50 mV and higher ranges |
| Noise |
45 μV RMS on 10 mV range |
| Pulse response |
< 1% overshoot |
| Bandwidth flatness |
DC to full bandwidth (+0.2 dB, −3 dB) |
| Triggering |
| Source |
All channels |
| Trigger modes |
None, auto, repeat, single, rapid (segmented memory) |
| Trigger types |
Rising or falling edge |
| Advanced trigger types |
Simple edge, advanced edge, window, pulse width, interval, window pulse width, level dropout, window dropout, runt |
| Trigger sensitivity |
Digital triggering provides 1 LSB accuracy up to full bandwidth |
| Pre-trigger capture |
Up to 100% of capture size |
| Post-trigger delay |
Zero to 4 billion samples (settable in 1 sample steps) |
| Trigger rearm time |
< 3 μs on fastest timebase |
| Maximum trigger rate |
Up to 10 000 waveforms in a 30 ms burst |
| Advanced digital trigger levels |
All trigger levels, window levels and hysteresis values settable with 1 LSB resolution across input range |
| Advanced digital trigger time intervals |
All time intervals settable with 1 sample resolution from 1 sample (minimum 12.5 ns) up to 4 billion sample intervals |
| Function generator |
| Standard output signals |
Sine, square, triangle, DC voltage, ramp up, ramp down, sinc, Gaussian, half-sine. |
| Pseudorandom output signals |
White noise, selectable amplitude and offset within output voltage range / Pseudorandom binary sequence (PRBS), selectable high and low levels within output voltage range, selectable bit rate up to 1 Mb/s |
| Standard signal frequency |
0.03 Hz to 1 MHz |
| Output frequency accuracy |
±20 ppm |
| Output frequency resolution |
< 0.02 Hz |
| Sweep modes |
Up, down, dual with selectable start/stop frequencies and increments |
| Triggering |
You can trigger a counted number of waveform cycles or sweeps (from 1 to 1 billion) from the scope trigger or manually from software. |
| Output voltage range |
±2 V |
| Output voltage adjustment |
Signal amplitude and offset are adjustable in approximately 300 µV steps, within an overall ±2 V range. |
| DC accuracy |
±1% of full scale |
| Amplitude flatness |
< 0.5 dB to 1 MHz, typical |
| SFDR |
87 dB typical |
| Output resistance |
600 Ω |
| Connector type |
Rear-panel BNC |
| Overvoltage protection |
±10 V |
| Arbitrary waveform generator |
| Update rate |
80 MS/s |
| Buffer size |
16 k samples |
| Vertical resolution |
14 bits (output step size approximately 300 µV) |
| Bandwidth |
1 MHz |
| Rise time (10% to 90%) |
150 ns |
| Sweep modes, triggering, frequency accuracy and resolution, voltage range and accuracy and output characteristics as for function generator. |
| Spectrum analyzer |
| Frequency range |
DC to 20 MHz |
| Display modes |
Magnitude, average, peak hold |
| Y axis |
Logarithmic (dbV, dBu, dBm, arbitrary dB) or linear (volts) |
| X axis |
Linear or logarithmic |
| Windowing functions |
Rectangular, Gaussian, triangular, Blackman, Blackman−Harris, Hamming, Hann, flat-top |
| Number of FFT points |
Selectable from 128 to 1 million in powers of 2 |
| Math channels |
| Functions |
−x, x+y, x−y, x*y, x/y, x^y, sqrt, exp, ln, log, abs, norm, sign, sin, cos, tan, arcsin, arccos, arctan, sinh, cosh, tanh, delay, average, frequency, derivative, integral, min, max, peak, duty, highpass, lowpass, bandpass, bandstop |
| Operands |
A to B, D or H (input channels), T (time), reference waveforms, pi, constants |
| Automatic measurements |
| Scope mode |
AC RMS, cycle time, DC average, duty cycle, edge count, fall time, falling edge count, falling rate, frequency, high pulse width, low pulse width, maximum, minimum, negative duty cycle, peak-to-peak, rise time, rising edge count , rising rate, true RMS |
| Spectrum mode |
Frequency at peak, amplitude at peak, average amplitude at peak, total power, THD %, THD dB, THD+N, SFDR, SINAD, SNR, IMD |
| Statistics |
Minimum, maximum, average, standard deviation |
| DeepMeasure™ |
| Parameters |
Cycle number, cycle time, frequency, low pulse width, high pulse width, duty cycle (high), duty cycle (low), rise time, fall time, undershoot, overshoot, max. voltage, min. voltage, voltage peak to peak, start time, end time |
| Serial decoding |
| Protocols |
1-Wire, ARINC 429, CAN, DALI, DCC, DMX512, Ethernet 10Base-T, FlexRay, I²C, I²S, LIN, Manchester, Modbus ASCII, Modbus RTU, PS/2, SENT, SPI, UART (subject to number of channels available) |
| Mask limit testing |
| Statistics |
Pass/fail, failure count, total count |
| Mask creation |
User-drawn, table entry, auto-generated from waveform or imported from file |
| Display |
| Interpolation |
Linear or sin(x)/x |
| Persistence modes |
Digital color, analog intensity, custom, fast |
| Output |
| File formats |
bmp, csv, gif, animated gif, jpg, mat, pdf, png, psdata, pssettings, txt |
| Functions |
Save, copy to clipboard, print |
| General |
| PC connectivity |
USB 3.0 SuperSpeed / USB 2.0 Hi-Speed compatible |
| PC connector type |
USB 3.0 type B |
| PC requirements |
Processor, memory and disk space: as required by the operating system
Ports: USB 3.0 (recommended) or 2.0 (compatible) |
| Power requirements |
Powered from USB |
| Ground terminal |
M4 screw terminal, rear panel. |
| Dimensions |
190 x 170 x 40 mm (including connectors) |
| Weight |
0.55 kg |
| Temperature range |
Operating: 0 °C to 45 °C (20 °C to 30 °C for stated accuracy)
Storage: −20 °C to +60 °C. |
| Humidity range |
Operating: 5% to 80% RH non-condensing
Storage: 5% to 95% RH non-condensing. |
| Altitude range |
Up to 2000 m |
| Pollution degree |
EN 61010 pollution degree 2: “only nonconductive pollution occurs except that occasionally a temporary conductivity caused by condensation is expected” |
| Safety compliance |
Designed to EN 61010-1; LVD compliant |
| EMC compliance |
Tested to meet EN 61326-1 and FCC Part 15 Subpart B. |
| Environmental compliance |
RoHS and WEEE |
| Warranty |
5 years |
| Software |
| Windows software (32-bit or 64-bit)* |
PicoScope 6, PicoLog 6, PicoSDK |
| macOS software (64-bit)* |
PicoLog 6 (including drivers) |
| Linux software (64-bit)* |
PicoScope 6 Beta software and drivers, PicoLog 6 (including drivers)
See Linux Software and Drivers to install drivers only |
| Raspberry Pi 4B (Raspberry Pi OS)* |
PicoLog 6 (including drivers)
See Linux Software and Drivers to install drivers only |
| * See the picotech.com/downloads page for more information. |
| Languages supported, PicoScope 6 |
Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish |
| Languages supported, PicoLog 6 |
Simplified Chinese, Dutch, English (UK), English (US), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish |