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GaGe Announces Extension of Octopus PCI Digitizer Family - With up to 8 digitizing channels of 12, 14 or now 16-bit resolution

Lockport, Illinois (December 15, 2008) - GaGe, a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance PC-based digitizer and oscilloscope cards, today introduced new 16-bit Octopus TM multi-channel digitizers. The Octopus CompuScope 84XX digitizers offer a powerful combination of up to 8 channels in a single PCI card, up to 4 GB of on-board acquisition memory and 10 or 25 MS/s sampling per channel.

"We revolutionized the digitizer market when we introduced our 12- and 14-bit Octopus digitizers that provide up to 8 channels in a single PCI card and sampling speeds up to 125 MS/s," said Patrick Cassady, Executive Vice President of DynamicSignals LLC. "Our new Octopus CompuScope 84XX digitizers are no exception. They are the only 16-bit 8-channel digitizers available on the market today and provide unprecedented digitizing power, performance and flexibility," Cassady added.

With the addition of these new 16-bit Octopus cards, the GaGe state-of-the-art Octopus Digitizer Family now has more than 40 cards for customers to choose from that best suit their specific needs for sampling rate, resolution, channel count as well as on-board memory.

Key Features

• pricing starts at less than $1000.00 per channel

• 16-bit vertical resolution

• 2, 4 or 8 digitizing channels or configure up to 64 channels in a single system

• 10 or 25 MS/s sampling rates

• base memory of 128 MS with up to 2 GS optionally available

• supports advanced features such as timestamping, faster PCI transfer speeds, deep memory in a single PCI slot, pre-trigger multiple recording

• includes advanced timing features such as clock in/clock out, trig in/trig out, and 10 MHz reference clock

• each input has a dedicated ADC chip ensuring true simultaneous sampling i.e. no ping-ponging circuitry between channels is used

• optional eXpert TM Signal Averaging firmware

Software Support

Drivers for Microsoft Windows Vista, XP and 2000 are supplied with the card, as well as a free Lite Edition of GaGe's powerful GageScope ® PC Oscilloscope software. SDK's for LabVIEW, MATLAB, and C/C# are also available.

Limited Time Promotional Offer

The new CompuScope 84XX digitizers are eligible for the free speed upgrade promotion currently offered for a limited time on GaGe's Octopus digitizers. For promotional details, or to request pricing, please refer to the GaGe web site http://www.gage-applied.com/upgrade_promotion.htm or contact your local GaGe sales representative.

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About GaGe

GaGe (www.gage-applied.com), a brand of DynamicSignals LLC (DynamicSignals.com), is a worldwide industry leader in high-performance signal capture. GaGe, KineticSystems, Preston Scientific and Cyber Systems, all brands of the DynamicSignals 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, CompactPCI, 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 ® oscilloscope software and a vast array of powerful Software Development Kits (SDKs).

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 2 GS/s and very deep on-board acquisition memory of up to 4 Gigabytes, GaGe's product line offers the top performance on the market today 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.

For more information on GaGe or any of its products, contact the company at 900 N. State Street , Lockport , IL 60441.

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

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