Lockport, Illinois (January 7, 2008)
GaGe, a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance PC-based digitizer and oscilloscope cards, today announced support for Windows VistaTM for their next-generation high-speed digitizers. The new drivers from GaGe provide support for both 32 and 64-bit versions of Windows Vista.
“GaGe has been at the forefront of Microsoft support since the earliest days of Windows and is happy to continue that tradition with support for Microsoft Vista in our next-generation digitizers” said Patrick Cassady, Executive Vice President.
GaGes new drivers that include Windows Vista support are compatible with GageScope® oscilloscope software that allows users to acquire and analyze signals without writing a single line of programming code. GaGe also offers Windows Vista support in their powerful Software Development Kits (SDKs) for C/C#, MATLAB®, or LabVIEW® and other popular programming environments for users that want to create their own custom software applications.
Advantages of Support for Windows Vista
GaGe driver support for Windows Vista allows customers to take advantage of new security, performance, and reliability/management features that Vista offers. For example, GaGe drivers are signed by a certificate that Windows “trusts” to ensure users of their reliability and security during download and execution.
New performance features such as enhanced memory management allow applications such as GageScope to load much faster, and Vistas intelligent process priority schemes ensure that applications which are used most often are preloaded into memory to offer users the fastest possible response times. GaGes 64-bit drivers further exploit the enhanced processing capabilities and practically ‘unlimited amount of PC RAM that 64-bit Vista provides to support memory-intensive end-user applications that can be built using GaGes C SDK which fully supports 64-bit Vista.
GaGe drivers also take advantage of new reliability and management features that Vista provides such as improved power management, enhanced event logging, and improved data integrity.
GaGes next generation digitizers that provide support for Windows Vista include:
CobraTM family of high-speed 8-bit digitizers with 1 or 2 digitizing channels, sampling speeds of up to 2 GS/s, and up to 1 GHz input bandwidth
OctopusTM family of multi-channel digitizers provide up to 8 digitizing channels in a single card, 12 or 14-bit resolution, and sampling speeds ranging from 10 MS/s to 125 MS/s.
GaGes CompuScope 12400, 14105, and 14200 digitizers provide 12 or 14-bit resolution and sampling speeds from 105 MS/s to 400 MS/s.
All of GaGes next-generation digitizers feature 4 GB of on-board memory and optional on-board signal analysis features such as eXpertTM Signal Averaging, FIR Filtering and Peak Detection.
The new drivers from GaGe can be downloaded free of charge from the companys Web site www.gage-applied.com/support.
For Further Information contact:
Nicole Faubert
GaGe/KineticSystems Marketing
Tel./Fax: 514-876-1850
nfaubert@gage-applied.com
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.
GaGes 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).
GaGes 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, GaGes product line offers the top performance on the market today in the 3 key dimensions of sampling speed, resolution, and memory.
The companys 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.
