Pico Technology expanded its PicoScope 9400 Series with the PicoScope 9404A-25, a high-performance oscilloscope with 25 GHz of bandwidth on four channels. The company's Sampler-Extended Real-Time Oscilloscope (SXRTO) technology integrates real-time acquisition with sampling oscilloscope capabilities. Thus, the scope can trigger directly on the signal while recording pre-trigger data, with the high time and amplitude resolution of a sampling scope.
Features include a high-speed internal trigger up to 18 GHz, and a real-time sampling rate of 500 MS/s to capture lower frequency non-repetitive signals or single-shot events. It employs random equivalent-time sampling to achieve effective sampling rates of up to 5 TS/s. Also, in both modes, the trigger event can be positioned anywhere in memory, enabling detailed observation of events before and after the trigger.
The PicoScope 9404A-25 is equipped with PicoSample 4 PC software, allowing for easy instrument setup and waveform visualization. It provides a wide array of signal-integrity measurements, including pulse and timing performance, jitter analysis, RZ & NRZ eye diagrams, and communications mask tests compliant with industry standards such as PCIe, Gigabit Ethernet, and Serial ATA—delivering a comprehensive validation toolkit.
The oscilloscope offers 175 ready-made mask tests, offering pre-compliance testing for buses such as Ethernet, USB, or PCI Express, while enabling new tests for any standard to be created rapidly. The PicoScope 9404A-25 supports ActiveX remote control via the Windows COM interface standard. Programming examples are provided in VB.NET, MATLAB, and LabVIEW, ensuring compatibility with development environments including JavaScript and C.
