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Strategic Test releases new 2-channel 10 MS/s 12-bit digitizer / transient recorder cards for PCI Express

Strategic Test — March 5, 2008

Features simultaneous sampling and streaming to PC

Woburn, MA USA – March 6, 2008. Strategic Test Corp has announced the UF2e-3120 two-channel 10 MS/s 12-bit PCI Express card. Signals can be recorded to the card memory of up to 2 Giga-samples or streamed at full rate to the host PC. Unique features include the options for dual-timebase sampling, synchronous digital inputs, asynchronous digital I/O and the possibility to synchronize up to 542 channels.

Drivers and programming examples for Microsoft Windows Vista, XP64, XP and (, , SuSe, Sarge) are supplied with the card, as well as the SBench 5.3 oscilloscope program. SDKs for MATLAB, , Agilent-VEE, DASYLab and LabWindows/CVI are available as options.

Key specifications include:

• 32 Mega-samples memory --- expandable to 2 Giga-samples

• Continuous streaming to host PC > 120 MS/s

• Effective Number of Bits > 10.6 bits

• Signal-to-Noise Ratio > 66.0 dB

• Total Harmonic Distortion < -63.0 dB

• The standard -3dB bandwidth is > 5 MHz

Each channel its own 10 MS/s for true simultaneous sampling. Eight input voltage ranges from ±50 mV to ±10 V, a offset of ±100% and input impedances of 50 Ohm or 1 MOhm, allow each channel to be individually configured for the signal source.

Like all UltraFast boards, the UF2e-3120 waveform digitizer cards can be customized with hardware options to best match the application:

• Onboard memory: 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024 or 2048 Mega-samples

• Multiple Recording: memory segmentation

• Gated Sampling: output clock controlled by external signal

• TimeBase : records time of trigger events or Gates

• ABA Mode: slow-fast-slow recording on trigger

• Star Hub: of up to 5 or 16 boards, or 5 to 16 PCs to a maximum or 271 boards. Can be used with Digitizer, AWG and Digital I/O boards to create mixed-mode systems

• Digital Inputs : adds 8 synchronous digital inputs

• BaseXIO : adds 8 asynchronous digital I/O lines

Prices start at $3990 with volume/OEM discounts available.

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About Strategic Test

Strategic Test is a world leading supplier of PC instrument boards and has offices in the USA and Europe. The companys clients include global electronics, semiconductor, defense, telecommunications and medical instrument companies, government funded research labs and universities on five continents.

The first high-speed measurement board for PCs was designed in 1989. Today the product range consists of more than 200 Oscilloscope/ Digitizer, Arbitrary Waveform Generator, high-speed Digital I/O and Digital Pattern Generator boards in the industry standard PCI Express, PCI, 3U and 6U formats.

Each product can be individually configured from a choice of more than eight hardware options designed to address the needs of specific applications. Software Development Kits are available for Microsoft Windows (Vista, XP64, XP, 2000, NT), Linux (Redhat, , Suse, Fedora, Sarge), LabVIEW, MATLAB, LabWindows/CVI, DASYLab, Agilent-VEE and Excel.

All products are supplied with two year hardware warranty and lifetime technical support and software updates.

A picture can be downloaded from the website at

www.strategic-test.com/news

Caption: 2-channel, 10 MS/s 12-bit Digitizer PCI Express card

For further information please contact:

Bob Giblett

President

Strategic Test Corporation

12 Alfred Street, Suite 300

Woburn, MA 01801-1915

Tel: (617)621-0080

Fax: (617)621-1414

Email: media@strategic-test.com

www.strategic-test.com

Press contact:

Leslie Logan

Precision Communications

Tel: (508)876-9400

Mobile: (508)212-1266

Email: Leslie_Logan@comcast.net

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