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PicoScope and oscilloscope primer10

5.3.2

How do capture modes work with views?

The capture mode tells PicoScope whether you are mainly interested in viewing

waveforms (scope mode) or frequency plots (spectrum mode). When you select a

capture mode, PicoScope sets up the hardware appropriately and then shows you a

view that matches the capture mode (a scope view if you selected scope mode or

persistence mode, or a spectrum view if you selected spectrum mode). The rest of this

section does not apply in persistence mode, which allows only a single view.

Once PicoScope has shown you the first view, you can, if you wish, add more scope or

spectrum views, regardless of the capture mode you are in. You can add and remove

as many extra views as you wish, as long as one view remains that matches the

capture mode.

Examples showing how you might select the capture mode and open additional views in

PicoScope. Top: persistence mode (one view only). Middle: scope mode. Bottom: spectrum

mode.

When using a secondary view type (a spectrum view in scope mode, or a scope view

in spectrum mode), you may see the data compressed horizontally rather than

displayed neatly as in a primary view. You can usually overcome this by using the

zoom tools.