Pico Technology PicoScope 3206

PicoScope 3206

The Pico Technology PicoScope 3206 is a 200MHz analog bandwidth 200MS/s sampling USB oscilloscope.

See Pico Technology PicoScope 3206/Info for some more details (such as lsusb -v output) on the device.

See Pico Technology PicoScope 3000 series for information common to all devices in this series.

Hardware

• Xilinx Spartan-II XC2S30 30K gate FPGA
• Samsung K7N801845B-QC13 8MB SRAM
• Cypress CY7C68013-56PVC (FX2) USB interface

The brain of the device sits in the FX2. It does the USB communication, programs two DACs and the waveform generator, uploads the firmware into the FPGA, forwards some settings to the FPGA, and controls the seven relays, the input channel crossbar, and the power nets enable signals. The FPGA fetches samples from the ADCs, stores them in the SRAM and waits for the trigger signal. When done, it fetches the samples from the SRAM and gives them to the FX2.

I2C

An ST24C02 EEPROM is directly connected to the FX2. It stores the USB ID and probably some calibration data. All other chips are behind an I2C gate (74VHC4052). The other I2C chips are

• PCA9554A - 8 bit GPIO controller
  • IO0 and IO1 control the relays for channel B
  • IO2 and IO3 control the relays for channel A
  • IO4 drives the LED
  • IO5 decides which channel is routed to the AD8132+AD9215 behind the channel A connector
  • IO6 decides which channel is routed to the AD8132+AD9215 behind the channel B connector and the LT1715 for triggering
  • IO7 drives the relay to route the waveform generator to the EXT connector
• MAX5822 - 2 channel DAC
  • Sets the trigger levels
• AD5315 - 4 channel DAC
  • One output to each AD8132
  • One output to the VREF pin of each AD9215

SPI

There is no SPI controller in the FX2. You have to do bit banging.

• AD9833 - waveform generator
  • SDATA/SCLK/FSYNC is PD4/PD3/PD2 on the FX2
• XC2S30 - FPGA
  • DIN/CCLK/PROGRAM is PA1/PA7/PA0 on the FX2

Power Nets

• The voltage from the optional power supply is converted to 4.9V by an LM3578. This is combined with the nominal 5V from USB. This power rail sources the SP6650 for 3.3V and the secondary 5V power rail.
• The 3.3V power rail is for the FX2, the EEPROM, the I2C gate, the MAX6424UK29, and the 555 timer. It also sources the secondary 3.3V power rail. It is always on.
• The secondary 3.3V power rail is for the AD9833, the 25MHz oscillator, both AD9215s, and the LT1715. It is enabled while FX2 PD7 is low.
• The secondary 5V power rail sources the LM2611 for -4.9V, the SP6650 for 2.5V, the MAX1896 for 6V, and both LP2981AIM5 for 4V. It is limited to about 7mA unless FX2 PD7 is low.
• The 6V power rail is for the two SST5912s. It is enabled while FX2 PD5 is high.
• The 2.5V power rail is for the FPGA and the SRAM. It is enabled while FX2 PD6 is high.
• The -4.9V power rail is for the input channel and trigger signal conditioning, the waveform generator, and, what I call, the FPGA killer. It is enabled while FX2 PD5 is high.
• One 4V power rail is for the input channel and trigger signal conditioning, the waveform generator. It is enabled while FX2 PD5 is high.
• The other 4V power rail is for the AD5315, the MAX5822, the PCA9554, the LED and the relays. This one is always on.
• FX2 PD5 also controls the I2C gate.
• PD5/PD6/PD7 can be overridden by dip switches.

FPGA

Thankfully this is only a two layer design without BGA components. On the top layer the 2.5V are distributed below the FPGA to all VCCINT and VCCO pins. Ground is fetched from the other side with vias.

FPGA IOs

Pin	Connected to	Pin	Connected to	Pin	Connected to
3	LT1715 out A (Trigger A or B)	49	SRAM /WE	94	SRAM D
4	LT1715 out B (Trigger EXT)	50	SRAM A19	95	SRAM D
6	25MHz oscillator	51	SRAM A	96	SRAM D
7	FX2 PD1	54	SRAM A	99	SRAM D
10	FX2 PD0	56	SRAM A	100	Test point
11	FX2 RDY1	57	SRAM A	102	FPGA killer
12	FX2 WAKEUP	58	SRAM D	103	FPGA killer
13	FX2 PKTEND	59	SRAM D	112	AD9215-1 D9
18	FX2 FLAGA	60	SRAM D	113	AD9215-1 D8
19	FX2 FD4	62	SRAM D	114	AD9215-1 D7
20	FX2 FD5	63	SRAM D	115	AD9215-1 D6
21	FX2 FD6	65	SRAM D	117	AD9215-1 D5
22	FX2 FD7	66	SRAM D	118	AD9215-1 D4
23	FX2 FD0	67	SRAM D	120	AD9215-1 D3
26	FX2 FD1	68	SRAM A	121	AD9215-1 D2
27	FX2 FD2	69	FX2 PA0	122	AD9215-1 D1
28	FX2 FD3	72	Test point (DONE)	123	AD9215-1 D0
29	FX2 IFCLK	74	SRAM A	126	AD9215-1 CLK
31	555 out	75	SRAM A	129	AD9215-2 D9
37	FX2 PA7	76	SRAM A	130	AD9215-2 D8
38	10kOhm to CCLK?	77	SRAM A	131	AD9215-2 D7
39	FX2 PA1	79	SRAM A	132	AD9215-2 D6
40	SRAM D	80	SRAM A	133	AD9215-2 D5
41	SRAM D	83	SRAM A	134	AD9215-2 D4
43	SRAM D	84	SRAM A	136	AD9215-2 D3
44	SRAM D	85	SRAM A	137	AD9215-2 D2
46	SRAM A	86	SRAM A	139	AD9215-2 D1
47	SRAM A	87	SRAM A	140	AD9215-2 D0
48	SRAM CLK	93	SRAM A	141	AD9215-2 CLK

• As you can see only 16 data lines of the SRAM are connected. Two data pins are unused. This probably also means that the FPGA discards two of the data bits from the ADCs depending on the selected voltage range.
• Pin 50 is an address pin only if the board is equipped with a bigger SRAM (K7N161831B).
• I don't know what the 555 is used for. It looks like it in an astable configuration.
• Have a good look at pin 102 and 103. They are connected to caps via 110 Ohm resistors. These caps are supplied by the -4.9V power rail via 100kOhm if both pins are inputs. This would probably kill part of the FPGA! So don't enable the -4.9V power rail until the FPGA has been loaded with a bitstream that drives these pins as output. Anyone knows if these pins serve any (other) purpose? Checking if -4.9V is enabled?

Photos

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  Device, top

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  Device, bottom

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  Device, front

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  Device, back

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  PCB, top

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  PCB, bottom

Protocol

See Pico_Technology_PicoScope_3000_series#Protocol.

Resources

• Manual
• PicoScope 3000 Series Programmer's Guide
• PicoScope 6 User's Guide
• Vendor software