| Model |
PicoScope 4224A |
PicoScope 4424A |
PicoScope 4824A |
| Oscilloscope - vertical |
| Number of input channels |
2 channels |
4 channels |
8 channels |
| Bandwidth (-3dB) |
20 MHz (50 mV to 50 V ranges)
10 MHz (10 mV and 20 mV ranges) |
| Rise time (cakculated) |
17.5 ns (50 mV to 50 V ranges)
35.0 ns (10 mV and 20 mV ranges) |
| Input type |
BNC, at least 20mm spacing |
| Vertical resolution |
12 bits |
| Software-enhanced vertical resolution |
Up to 16 bits |
| Input sensitivity |
2mV/div to 10V/div (10 vertical divisions) |
| Input ranges |
±10 mV to ±50 V full scale, in 12 ranges |
| Input coupling |
Software-selectable AC / DC |
| Input charasteristics |
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 accuracy |
±1% of offset setting additional to basic DC accuracy |
| Maximum input voltage |
±50 V DC, 42.4 V peak AC |
| Overvoltage protection |
±100 V (DC + AC peak) |
| Oscilloscope - horizontal |
| 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, continuous streaming mode) |
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 |
20 ns/div to 5000 s/div |
| Buffer memory |
256 MS shared between active channels |
| Streaming buffer memory (PicoScope) |
100 MS |
| Streaming buffer memory (SDK) |
Up to available PC memory |
| Maximum buffer segments |
10 000 |
| Maximum waveforms per second |
100 000 (PC-dependent) |
| Timebase accuracy |
±20 ppm (+5 ppm/year) |
| Sample jitter |
25 ps RMS typical |
| Dynamic performance (typical) |
| Crosstalk |
−76 dB, DC to 20 MHz |
| 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 |
| Bandwidth flatness |
DC to full bandwidth (+0.2 dB, −3 dB) |
| Pulse response |
< 1% overshoot |
| Triggering |
| Source |
Channels A to B |
Channels A to D |
Channels A to H |
| Trigger modes |
Free run, auto, repeat, single, rapid (segmented memory) |
| Trigger types |
Edge with adjustable hysteresis, pulse width, window, window pulse width, dropout, window dropout, interval, logic level, runt pulse |
| Trigger sensitivity |
Digital triggering provides 1 LSB accuracy up to full bandwidth |
| Maximum pre-trigger capture |
100% of capture size |
| Maximum 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 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, sinc, Gaussian, half-sine, white noise, PRBS |
| Standard signal frequency |
0.03 Hz to 1 MHz |
| Sweep modes |
Up, down, dual |
| Triggering |
Can trigger a counted number of waveform cycles or sweeps (up to 1 billion) from the scope trigger or manually from software. |
| Frequency accuracy |
±20 ppm |
| Frequency resolution |
< 0.02 Hz |
| Voltage range |
±2 V |
| Amplitude and offset adjustment |
Signal amplitude and offset within ± 2V range. Adjustable in approx 300 μV steps. |
| Amplitude flatness |
< 0.5 dB to 1 MHz typical |
| DC accuracy |
±1% of full scale |
| SFDR |
87 dB typical |
| Output characteristics |
Rear-panel BNC, 600 Ω output impedance |
| Overvoltage protection |
±10 V |
| Arbitrary Waveform Generator |
| Update rate |
80 MS/s |
| Buffer size |
16 kS |
| 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 |
| Windowing functions |
Rectangular, Gaussian, triangular, Blackman, Blackman-Harris, Hamming, Hann, flat-top |
| Number of FFT points |
Selectable from 128 up to 1 million in powers of 2 |
| Scale / units |
X axis : linear or log 10
Y axis : logarithmic (dbV, dBu, dBm, arbitrary) or linear (volts) |
| Math channels |
| General 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, derivative, integral, delay |
| Filter functions |
Lowpass, highpass, bandstop, bandpass |
| Graphing functions |
Frequency, duty cycle |
| Multi-waveform functions |
Min, max, average, peak |
| Operands |
Input channels, reference waveforms, time, constants, pi |
| Automatic measurements |
| Scope mode |
AC RMS, true RMS, cycle time, DC average, duty cycle, falling rate, fall time, frequency, high pulse width, low pulse width, maximum, minimum, peak to peak, rise time, rising rate. |
| 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 and standard deviation |
| DeepMeasure™ |
| Scope mode |
AC RMS, true RMS, cycle time, DC average, duty cycle, falling rate, fall time, frequency, high pulse width, low pulse width, maximum, minimum, peak to peak, rise time, rising rate. |
| 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 and standard deviation |
| Serial decoding |
| Protocols |
1-Wire, ARINC 429, CAN, CAN FD, DALI, DCC, DMX512, Ethernet (10Base-T), FlexRay, I²C, I²S, LIN, Manchester, MODBUS (ASCII and RTU), PS/2, SENT, SPI, UART/RS-232. Subject to number of channels available. |
| Inputs |
All input channels with any mixture of protocols |
| Mask limit testing |
| Mask creation |
User-drawn, table entry, auto-generated from waveform or imported from file |
| Actions |
Highlight on screen, select in buffer overview, activate alarm |
| Statistics |
Pass/fail, failure count, total count |
| Alarms |
| Initiating events |
Capture, buffer full, mask fail |
| Alarm actions |
Beep, play sound, stop/restart capture, run executable, save current buffer/all buffers, trigger signal generator |
| Display |
| Interpolation |
Linear or sin(x)/x |
| Persistence modes |
Digital color, analog intensity, fast, custom |
| Data export |
| Output file formats |
BMP, CSV, GIF, JPG, MATLAB 4, PDF, PNG, PicoScope data, PicoScope settings, TXT |
| Output functions |
Copy to clipboard, print |
| Environmental |
| Temperature range (operating) |
0 °C to 45 °C |
| Temperature range (stated accuracy) |
20 °C to 30 °C |
| Temperature range (storage) |
–20 °C to +60 °C |
| Humidity range (operating) |
5% to 80% RH non-condensing |
| Humidity range (storage) |
5% to 95% RH non-condensing |
| Altitude |
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” |
| Physical properties |
| Dimensions |
190 x 170 x 40 mm |
| Weight |
< 0.55 kg |
| Software |
| Windows software |
PicoScope 6
PicoLog 6
PicoSDK software development kit
Windows 7, 8 or 10 recommended |
| macOS software |
PicoScope 6 Beta (feature list)
PicoLog 6
Software development kit (SDK)
OS versions: see release notes |
| Linux software |
PicoScope 6 Beta (feature list)
Software development kit (SDK)
See Linux Sofware and Drivers for details of supported distributions |
| Raspberry Pi software |
PicoLog 6 for Raspberry Pi 3B and 4B (Raspberry Pi OS) |
| Languages |
PicoScope 6: English, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
PicoLog 6: English (UK), English (US), Simplified Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish |
| General |
| What's in the box? |
PicoScope 4000A Series high-resolution oscilloscope
USB 3.0 cable
USB Oscilloscope Quick Start Guide
10:1/1:1 switched probes (quantity shown below) |
| Number of probes included |
2 |
4 |
4 |
| PC connectivity |
SuperSpeed USB 3.0 (USB 2.0 compatible) |
| Power requirements |
Powered from USB |
| Ground terminal |
M4 screw on rear panel |
| Safety compliance |
Designed to EN 61010-1; LVD compliant |
| EMC compliance |
Tested to meet EN61326-1 and FCC Part 15 Subpart B |
| Environmental compliance |
RoHS and WEEE |
| Warranty |
5 years |
