Pocket size 200 MHz oscilloscope from Pico

Pico Technology has released a new USB oscilloscope series called 2000 Series, that occupy about the area of a passport and are only 19 mm (three-quarters of an inch) thick. With a bandwidth spec up to 200 MHz and an arbitrary waveform generator, these scopes offer features and performance of a traditional bench-top oscilloscope. The new PicoScope 2000 range was very much a "skunkworks" project, explained Managing Director Alan Tong. "We give all of our engineers one afternoon a week to work on a project of their own choosing, and a group decided to see how small they could make an oscilloscope without compromising on performance. They kept the project secret until they had a working prototype complete with a 3D-printed enclosure. When I saw it I was immediately sold on the idea, as it was a product I wanted to own myself. It’s so small and light, I now carry an oscilloscope in my laptop bag all the time." The specifications include a maximum sampling rate of 1 GS/s, adjustable analog offset over the full input range, and high-speed USB streaming up to 1 MS/s for waveform captures of up to 100 million samples in length. The built-in signal source can act as a standard signal generator (sine, square, triangle and others) with programmable sweep or as a 12 bit 20 MS/s full-function arbitrary waveform generator. The features include FFT spectrum analyzer, up to 48K sa...