As an electronic engineer, you are bound to test your platform with an oscilloscope. But facing various types of oscilloscope, what is the right choice that can meet your requirement? Selecting a proper oscilloscope becomes a challenging problem that will trouble you for a bit of time.
Firstly, if you are a Field Application Engineer or a Service Engineer, you’d better bring an oscilloscope along with you at any moment in case some time when you need it. Therefore, a portable oscilloscope can be an ideal choice.
Secondly, you have to consider the cost. The price of an oscilloscope is determined by its features and performance, including bandwidth, sampling rate, number of channels and memory depth. A suitable one needs to balance those factors.
The PicoScope 5204 PC Oscilloscope delivers good performance in terms of portability, bandwidth, channel number and memory depth. It can give you class-leading bandwidth, sampling rate and memory depth, and memory depth, and an array of advanced high end features at a reasonable price. While other oscilloscopes at this price range force you to compromise on either bandwidth, sampling rate or buffer memory.
The dimensions of the PicoScope 5204 PC Oscilloscope are L244×W170×H140, 0.9 kg weight, taking very small part of your valuable desk space, and it is even can be suitably put into your laptop bag.
It has 5 BNC terminations, 1 power in jack and 1 USB interface for connection to PC, making it very easy to use.
With the built-in 12 bit, 125 MS/s arbitrary waveform generator (AWG), the PicoScope 5204 PC oscilloscope can generate waveform in any shape with the frequency up to 20 MHz. The 2-channel switchable probes can handle 250 MHz analog input; maximum real-time single-channel sampling rate is up to 1 GS/s; sample record length per channel reaches 128 MS. In addition, the PicoScope 5204 PC oscilloscope also provide the capability of 250 Mhz spectrum analysis.
Summary：
The PicoScope 5204 PC is a high-performance portable PC oscilloscope which is able to completely satisfy engineers’ common requirements in terms of bandwidth, sampling rate and memory depth. It is an ideal choice for field failure diagnosis like automotive troubleshooting.