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Gage Applied Technologies Announces New Family of Multi-Channel Digitizers

Lockport, Illinois (November 7, 2005) - Gage Applied Technologies, worldwide leader in design and manufacture of high-performance PC-based digitizer and oscilloscope cards, announces a new family of multi-channel digitizers that will be available in early 2006. Gage's OctopusT family of digitizers features up to 8 channels, up to 4 GB of on-board acquisition memory, and up to 125 MS/s sampling per channel in a single-slot PCI card.

The Octopus family of digitizers is modular by design and allows users to custom-build their own digitizer according to their specific needs by choosing from:

2 to 8 digitizing channels (highest # of channels in a single digitizing card available on the market today)
12 or 14-bit resolution
10 to 125 MS/s sampling per channel (highest sampling rate available on the market today for an 8-channel digitizer)
256 MB to 4 GB of on-board acquisition memory (highest amount of on-board memory available in a digitizer on the market today)

Gage's new multi-channel digitizers far surpass current digitizer offerings available on the market today in terms of combined channel count, sampling rate, and on-board memory, but perhaps most notably, low price per channel.

"We are targeting a price per channel of less than $1000.00," said Eric Gillas, General Manager of Gage Applied Technologies. "We recognize the industry need for a low-cost digitizer. Since our Octopus digitizers were designed to be modular, users pay for only the features that they need rather than unnecessarily paying for a 'one-size fits all' digitizer solution", Gillas added. "This flexible and cost-effective solution is ideal for integration into OEM products."

Optionally available on any of the Octopus digitizers are Gage's new eXpertT advanced on-board FPGA technologies: Finite Impulse Response Filtering, Signal Averaging, Peak Detection, or FFT. Gage's eXpert technologies allow users to perform on-the-fly data analysis and greatly increase the speed of data processing.

Gage's Octopus family of digitizers is fully compatible with GageScope® Oscilloscope software that allows users to acquire and analyze signals without writing a single line of programming code. Gage also offers Software Development Kits (SDKs) in C/C#, MATLAB® , LabVIEW® , and LabWindows/CVI for users that want to create their own custom applications.

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

About Gage Applied Technologies, Inc.

Gage Applied Technologies ( www.gage-applied.com ) a member of the Dynamic Signals group of companies ( DynamicSignals.com ), is a worldwide industry leader in high-performance signal capture. Gage, KineticSystems, Preston Scientific and Cyber Systems, all members of the Dynamic Signals growing family, serve a wide-range of industries by providing instruments and modules for PC-based test and measurement systems and synthetic instrumentation built on the PCI, PXI, VXI, CAMAC and proprietary platforms.

Gage's product offering includes a family of multi-MHz to GHz digitizers and scope cards, analog signal generator cards, digital input and digital output cards, as well as the programming-free GageScope ® software and a vast array of powerful Software Development Kits.

Gage's family of signal capture products consists of the CompuScope line of 8-bit, 12-bit, 14-bit and 16-bit digitizers and scope cards for the PCI and CompactPCI/PXI buses. With sampling rates up to 5 GS/s and very deep on-board acquisition memory of up to 2 GigaBytes, Gage's product line offers the top performance on the market in the 3 key dimensions of sampling speed, resolution, and memory.

The company's customer focus translates into products that are used across diverse industries such as Communications, Computers, Military/Aerospace, Fundamental Research, and Education. Applications served are Manufacturing Test, Radar (SIGINT), Ultrasonics, Lasers/LIDAR, Spectroscopy, Automated Test Equipment, etc.

Gage is located minutes away from Montreal 's international airport in the suburb of Lachine , Quebec , Canada . Through KineticSystems, Gage benefits from a state-of-the-art board assembly facility, located in Lockport ( Illinois ), that enables the delivery of top quality products with a very fast turnaround.

For more information on Gage Applied Technologies or any of its products, contact the company at 1 Provost, Suite 200 , Lachine , QC , H8S 4H2 , Canada .

Telephone 1-800-567-GAGE Fax 1-800-780-8411

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