Gage Applied Technologies Announces New Family of PCI Arbitrary Waveform Generators

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Montreal, Canada (September 19, 2005) - Gage Applied Technologies, worldwide leader in design and manufacture of high-performance PC-based digitizer and oscilloscope cards, has introduced a new CompuGen family of arbitrary waveform generator cards for the PCI platform. The new PCI CompuGen family of ultra-fast arbitrary waveform generator cards offers 12-bit resolution at D/A conversion rates of up to 1 billion samples per second.

The family is comprised of the following three new products: CompuGen 11G, CompuGen 4300, and the CompuGen 8150. The product specifications can be summarized as follows:

 

Product name	Conversion rate	Resolution	Channel count
CompuGen 11G	1 billion conversions per second	12 bit	1 channel
CompuGen 4300	300 million conversions per second	12 bit	4 channels
CompuGen 8150	150 million conversions per second	12 bit	8 channels

These new arbitrary waveform generator and function generator cards are capable of providing aperiodic analog waveforms by creating a digital representation of the waveform in the on-board memory of the CompuGen card (standard offering includes 4 MegaSamples of on-board memory and 16 MegaSamples is now optionally available on the CompuGen 8150). This digital pattern is then converted into an analog signal using a high speed Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC).

"Our new PCI CompuGen cards complement well our expanding line of PCI digitizer cards and allow us to provide a complete solution to our customers for their test and measurement needs", said Eric Gillas , General Manager of Gage Applied Technologies. "Customers can use one of our CompuGen cards to easily generate complex or customized analog signals. Furthermore, they can simulate real-world signals from stand-alone instruments and connect these signals to one of our digitizer cards in order to validate their complete measurement system", added Gillas.

Free software for creating, editing, and generating waveforms as well as software development kits for C/C++, MATLAB, and LabVIEW are included.

The CompuGen PCI products are available to order immediately with a projected lead-time of 8 weeks.

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For Further 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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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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