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AlazarTech announces support for MATLAB^® for its family of PCI and PCI Express waveform digitizers

Montreal, Canada (May 2, 2011) AlazarTech, a manufacturer of high performance, low cost PC Based Instruments, today released ATS-SDK 6.0.2 software development kit, which includes support for MATLAB^® technical computing software for its entire family of PCI and PCI Express waveform digitizers.

ATS-SDK 6.0.2 adds sample programs, helper functions, and utility m-files that demonstrate how MATLAB users can configure and acquire data from AlazarTech waveform digitizers directly from MATLAB.

ATS-SDK 6.0.2 also includes example m-files that demonstrate how to stream data from AlazarTech digitizers directly into MATLAB arrays at a sustained rate of up to 1.6 GB/s, while consuming almost no CPU resources. This allows MATLAB users to create applications that use almost all available CPU resources to process this acquired data in real-time using MATLAB's powerful numerical computing functions.

“Customer surveys showed that a significant number of users of our waveform digitizers were importing acquired data into MATLAB to do signal processing”, stated Muneeb Khalid, President of AlazarTech. “With ATS-SDK 6.0.2, we not only allow customers to import data, we also let them process it in real-time, allowing them to build powerful parallel computing signal processing systems for radio applications”.

The sample programs use MATLAB's "calllib" interface to call functions exported by AlazarTech software drivers. This allows MATLAB users to control AlazarTech waveform digitizers entirely from MATLAB m-file scripts. Now users can modify MATLAB programs simply by editing an m-file and re-running the script without an extra compilation step, as required with mex-files.

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For further technical or editorial information, contact Muneeb Khalid at
1-877-7-ALAZAR or +1-514-426-4899 or via e-mail at muneeb@alazartech.com. Mailing address is AlazarTech, 6600 Trans-Canada Highway, Suite 310, Pointe-Claire, QC, Canada H9R 4S2. Company web site is www.alazartech.com.

AlazarTech, headquartered in Montreal, Canada, provides high performance, low cost PC Based Instruments and software for customers involved in building OEM products, manufacturing test systems and research and development.

AlazarTech was founded in 2003 by Muneeb Khalid, who was the original founder of Gage Applied Sciences Inc., a pioneer in PC Based Instrumentation. That company was sold to Tektronix Inc. in 2000.

While AlazarTech manufactures some of the fastest PCI and PCI Express digitizers on the market, speed alone is not the differentiating factor. AlazarTech concentrates on providing usability features for its PCI and PCIe digitizers that make them very easy to integrate into real-world OEM applications such as ultrasonic testing, medical imaging and radar signal analysis.

AlazarTech also works with selected OEMs to customize its products based on customer requirements.

The company's line of ATS PCI and PCIe digitizers have been recognized by leading European, Asian and North American OEMs as being superior in quality to other devices on the market.

The company's products have found applications in industries such as medical imaging, metal inspection, automotive and semiconductor test.

AlazarTech sells its products directly in North America, and internationally through a distribution network.

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