The PicoScope 2205A oscilloscope offers a small, light, modern alternative to the bulky bench top device. You can slip this 25Mhz instrument easily in your laptop bag making it is perfect for engineers on the move; and ideal for a wide range of applications including design, test, education, service, monitoring, fault finding, and repair.
The supplied PicoScope 6 software has an array of high-end features, such as serial decoding and mask limit testing now included as standard. New functionality is regularly delivered through free upgrades, optimised with the help of customer feedback.
The PicoScope 2205A has a built-in arbitrary waveform generator (AWG). Waveforms can be imported from the oscilloscope as well as external data files. New files can be created and modified using the built-in graphical AWG editor.
A function generator is also included, with sine, square, triangle, DC level and many more standard waveforms. As well as level, offset and frequency controls, the advanced options allow you to sweep over a range of frequencies. Combined with the spectrum peak hold option, this creates a powerful tool for testing amplifier and filter responses.
Being able to print, copy, saving, and emailing your data from the field is quick and easy with the USB connection.
Light but sturdy build
Easy to use software with powerful features such as serial decoding
25MHz, 2 channels, 200MS/s sampling rate
SDK makes it possible to use it as very capable data capture device
Powerful signal generator in the same package
Advanced digital triggers
Arbitrary waveform generator
Serial decoding
USB powered
Ultra compact design
What's in the box?
PicoScope 2205A Series oscilloscope
USB cable
Quick Start Guide
Software - PicoScope 6 for Microsoft Windows 7, 8 and 10; 32-bit and 64-bit SDK for Windows 7, 8 and 10; 32-bit and 64-bit
Two x1/x10 passive probes are included, chosen to match the bandwidth of your scope
A. Hi Steve, thank you for your question. This is compatible with Windows 10.
Reviews
Excellent mid-range digital oscilloscope
Reviewed by: Mr Slater - Wednesday, September 27, 2017
This is the second Pico 2205A device I have purchased, so I place a lot of value on a very well specified USB digital scope.
This model comes with two independent channels, both with good quality probes with 1X and 10X switching.
What really sets Pico apart is the Picoscope visualisation software and so far, there is little that would make it better.
Apart from the usual timebase/voltage range/trigger options, the software adds many measurement options to allow live and post run analysis. In addition, you get decoding for many buses like SPI, I2C, 1-Wire and so on.
Pico are regularly adding new options.
The only slight criticism I have is that the mouse operation can be tempermental, for example viewing several traces one after the other, selecting back and next trace will often skip a trace e.g. 8>9>10 might skip 8.
However, this does not detract from a good value piece of kit.
25-MHz is ample bandwidth for my uses.
I have Picoscope installed on Window 10 (64-bit) and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (64-bit). The Linux version has the same functionality, but lacks the refinement of the Windows version. Picoscope would not install on 32-bit Ubuntu 12.10 LTS.
You would have to spend a lot more to achieve a small increase in performance.
Viewed on a large (23") monitor, the screen view is impressive.
