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Spectrum Instrumentation, a company dedicated to manufacture fast PCI, PXI, CompactPCI instruments. Used as ADC boards, DAC boards, transient recorder, high-speed data acquisition, signal generator (arbitrary waveform and pattern generators), digital I/O boards, DAQ, oscilloscope. Products available with 8 bit, 12 bit, 14 bit, 16 bit resolution and provide computer supplies. Spectrum has focused its business on the high-speed A/D, D/A and Digital I/O range with sampling rates between 100 kS/s, 1 MS/s, 10 MS/s, 50 MS/s, 100 MS/s, 200 MS/s, 500 MS/s and 1GS/s. Fast amplifiers and high-quality converters allow the acquisition and replay of high-frequency signals. As a result of the substantial on-board memory even fast signals may be recorded for long time with a high precision. The boards are also available in a completely installed system. The boards are available for PCI/PCI-X bus (overview of all PCI/PCI-X boards), boards for PCI Express (click here for all PCI Express boards), boards for PXI bus (overview all PXI products) and boards for CompactPCI bus (here all CompactPCI boards) in a completely installed system in a wide range of standard systems, 19" industrial systems or mobile PCs. For the mobile use together with a notebook, a range of high-performance docking stations that can hold up to three PCI boards is also available. Spectrum delivers loadable Linux modules for the common GNU/Linux distributions with all products for years now. But also less common GNU/Linux distributions are supported. For this the source code of the driver module and the needed makefiles are available from Spectrum. The user then can compile a perfectly matching version for his GNU/Linux installation. GNU/Linux distribution officially supported (32 and 64bit architectures) are SuSE from 9.0 up to 9.3 (32 bit) and SuSE from 10.0 up to 11.3 (32 and 64 bit), Debian Sarge (kernel 2.4.27 and 2.6.8, 32 bit), Etch and Lenny (32 bit and 64 bit), Red Hat 9.0 and Fedora Core/Fedora from 3 up to 14 (32 bit and 64 bit). But Spectrum delivers free of charge the software SBench 6 a powerful and intuitive interactive measurement software. Besides the possibility to commence the measuring task immediately, without programming, SBench 6 combines the setup of hardware, data display, oscilloscope, transient recorder, analysing functions and export functions under one easy-to-use interface. All current Spectrum M2i and M3i data acquisition cards are supported. The integrated demo function can simulate any of the supported boards in the system. This allows testing SBench functionality without any hardware. It's available for GNU/Linux too, KDE and Gnome desktop environment still providing the look and feel of the specific window manager. For more information about Spectrum click here.