GaGe has announced support for Windows Vista 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’s 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 Vista’s intelligent process priority schemes ensure that applications which are used most often are preloaded into memory to offer users the fastest possible response times. GaGe’s 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 GaGe’s 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.
GaGe’s next generation digitizers that provide support for Windows Vista include:
Cobra 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
Octopus 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.
GaGe’s 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 GaGe’s next-generation digitizers feature 4 GB of on-board memory and optional on-board signal analysis features such as eXpert Signal Averaging, FIR Filtering and Peak Detection.
The new drivers from GaGe can be downloaded free of charge from the company’s Web site www.gage-applied.com/support.
