Montreal, Canada ( February 9, 2001) - Gage Applied Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tektronix, Inc. [NYSE:TEK], and a leading manufacturer of PC Based Instruments and Instrument Building Blocks, launches a family of advanced waveform digitizers for PCI bus that more than doubles the sample rate currently available.

CompuScope 85G, the fastest in this family of digitizers, is based on semiconductor technology from Tektronix. This technology, in the shape of custom ASICs, provides very fast data conversion, low manufacturing cost and low power consumption, allowing Gage to provide an unprecedented price-performance to its customers.

The high performance is achieved by utilizing Tektronix’s proven FISO (Fast In Slow Out) technology that uses analog memory to store the signal being acquired and converts it to digital code using highly accurate, slower speed Analog to Digital converters.

CompuScope 85G is a single slot, full length PCI card that receives all the power required for proper operation from the PCI bus connector. It also features a wide analog bandwidth of 500 MHz and 10,000 points of acquisition memory for each channel.

The very flexible, oscilloscope-like input amplifier circuitry allows switchable gains that provide full-scale input ranges from +/- 40mV to +/- 20 V (10 mV/div to 5 V/div), with programmable DC offset of as much as +/- 50 Volts. Advanced trigger circuitry on the CompuScope 85G also includes complete PAL and NTSC TV trigger capability.

Applications for CompuScope 85G include Embedded DAQ, Manufacturing Test and High Energy Physics.

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CompuScope 1450 , another one of the waveform digitizers being launched, features very high resolution (14 bit), sample rate as high as 50 MS/s, low cost, very deep acquisition memory and 100 MB/s data transfer to PC memory.

Due to a fully bus-mastering PCI interface, CompuScope 1450 provides a very high data transfer speed from on-board acquisition memory to PC memory. This enables its use in applications that require the acquisition system to keep up with very fast trigger repeat rates. Examples include ultrasonic imaging, non-destructive testing, Radar, Lidar etc.

All waveform digitizers in this family work seamlessly with GageScope® software, allowing effortless data collection for post processing.

For customers who need to embed one or more of these waveform digitizers in their own software program, Software Development Kits (SDKs) are available for C/C++, MATLAB® and LabVIEW®, with support for Windows 95/98, Windows ME, Windows NT and Windows 2000. A Linux driver and sample program is also available.

CompuScope 85G is available with a 4 week delivery from receipt of order.
CompuScope 1450 is available with a 6 week delivery from receipt of order

Contact Gage for pricing information.

For further information, contact Nicole Faubert at +1-514-633-7007, extension 3034, or via e-mail at: marketing @ gage-applied.

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