Gage Applied Technologies

What Gage Applied Technologies does

Gage Applied Technologies (GaGe) designs and manufactures high-speed A/D digitizers and signal recording systems for enterprise and research customers. The product portfolio centers on modular PCIe and Thunderbolt digitizers available in 8-bit, 12-bit, 14-bit, and 16-bit resolutions, with sampling rates ranging from 500 MS/s to 4 GS/s, input bandwidths up to 1.75 GHz, and onboard sample memory up to 16 GS (16 GB). The company differentiates on sustained effective number of bits (ENOB) across wide frequency ranges — documenting up to 12.1 true ENOBs on its 16-bit line — and offers complementary compute-acceleration features including eXpert FPGA DSP for onboard signal processing and GPU CUDA processing for 10X–100X faster analysis rates than host CPU. The portfolio also includes A-27 and A-40 series RF downconverters covering 9 kHz to 40 GHz with instantaneous bandwidths of 10–500 MHz, ultra-portable RF signal recorder systems (up to 27 GHz, 160 MHz recording bandwidth, 10.8 kg form factor), and a multi-language software ecosystem (GaGeScope PC oscilloscope, DsScope and SpectraScopeRT recording applications, SDKs for C/C#, Python, LabVIEW, MATLAB). GaGe has also incorporated Signatec and KineticSystems product lines into its commercial offering under the GaGe brand.

GaGe operates as a wholly-owned brand under Vitrek LLC, an Illinois LLC headquartered in Lockport, IL, and has carried the GaGe brand since 1987. The company sells directly to enterprise customers via phone-based and quote-based sales, with an OEM Embedded Product Volume Support program offering volume discount pricing, custom hardware/software engineering, and product safety stock pooling for strategic OEM customers. Customer segments span four primary verticals — Aerospace & Defense, Medical Imaging, Semiconductor, and R&D — and three secondary verticals — Communications, SIGINT/Intelligence, and Industrial — with applications including radar, electronic warfare, SIGINT, lidar, ultrasound imaging, particle physics, semiconductor wafer testing, and non-destructive testing. An academic discount program supports the R&D and educational customer segment. Manufacturing is Made in USA in Illinois, with ISO 17025 calibration accreditation (A2LA), ISO 9001:2015 certification (TUV Rheinland of North America), and RoHS compliance.

GaGe is a privately held subsidiary/brand of Vitrek LLC and has no independent funding history, equity structure, or public-company disclosures. The parent Vitrek entity also owns MTI Instruments as a separate brand covering turbine/vibration balancing, non-contact measurement, and semiconductor metrology, indicating GaGe is one product line within a privately-held precision test & measurement corporate group. GaGe operates with a small headcount (11–50 employees at the brand level) and uses a high-touch, low-volume, high-ASP commercial model consistent with specialty instrumentation rather than commodity hardware.

Name

Gage Applied Technologies

Legal name

GaGe

Website

https://gage-applied.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1987

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

GaGe designs and manufactures high-speed A/D digitizers (8-16 bit, up to 4 GS/s), RF downconverters to 40 GHz, and portable RF signal recorders for aerospace & defense, medical imaging, semiconductor, and research customers. A Vitrek LLC brand since 1987.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Test & Measurement Instrumentation

NAICS

Instrument Manufacturing for Measuring and Testing Electricity and Electrical Signals (334515), Computer and Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing (3341), Other Communications Equipment Manufacturing (334290)

SIC

Instruments For Meas & Testing Of Electricity & Elec Signals (3825), Communications Equipment, Nec (3669)

akta.pro primary industry

Expansion Cards & Internal Add-ons (Sound, Capture, USB, RAID/HBA, NIC) (HDACAGAJ)

Keywords

• High-speed data acquisition
• A/D digitizers
• Signal recording systems
• RF downconverters
• PC-based oscilloscope software

Headquarters

HQ city

Lockport

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. High-Speed Digitizer Hardware Sales: Sale of high-speed A/D digitizer products including 16-bit, 14-bit, 12-bit, and 8-bit models with various form factors (PCIe, Thunderbolt). These are one-time hardware purchases with varying specifications for resolution, sampling rate, and channel count.
2. Signal Recording System Sales: Sale of complete signal recording systems including RF downconverters and ultra-portable RF signal recorders for real-time spectrum analysis and long-term signal recording applications.
3. Software Development Kits (SDKs): SDKs provided for C/C#, Python, LabVIEW, and MATLAB included with digitizer purchases. Professional services and custom software development available through OEM programs.
4. OEM Embedded Product Volume Support: Volume pricing and custom engineering support for OEM customers embedding GaGe products into their solutions. Includes negotiated factory/onsite technical support, custom hardware/software development, and product safety stock pool program.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

GaGe designs and manufactures high-speed A/D digitizers (8-bit, 12-bit, 14-bit, 16-bit resolutions) and signal recording systems in PCIe and Thunderbolt form factors, with sampling rates up to 4 GS/s and onboard memory up to 16 GS. The portfolio also includes RF downconverters up to 40 GHz, ultra-portable RF signal recorders, optional FPGA DSP and GPU CUDA processing, and SDKs for C/C#, Python, LabVIEW, and MATLAB. Products are sold primarily to enterprise customers in aerospace, defense, medical imaging, semiconductor, communications, and research sectors.

Product overview

GaGe, a Vitrek brand since 1987, offers a modular high-speed data acquisition platform centered on PCIe high-speed A/D digitizers available in 8-bit, 12-bit, 14-bit, and 16-bit resolutions. The product portfolio is organized into four interconnected categories: (1) High-Speed Digitizers (PCIe and Thunderbolt form factors including RazorEdge, RazorMax, RazorPlus, Saber, EON, and Cobra Express series) with sampling rates from 500 MS/s to 4 GS/s and onboard memory up to 16 GS; (2) Digital Signal Processing including eXpert FPGA DSP for onboard signal analysis and GPU CUDA Processing for real-time GPU-accelerated processing; (3) Software including GaGeScope PC oscilloscope application, DsScope IF signal recording app, SpectraScopeRT RF signal recording app, and SDKs for C/C#, Python, LabVIEW, and MATLAB; and (4) Signal Recording Systems including A-27 and A-40 Series RF Downconverters (9 kHz to 40 GHz, IBW 10-500 MHz) and Ultra-Portable RF Signal Recorders (up to 27 GHz, up to 160 MHz recording bandwidth). GaGe also incorporates products from Signatec and KineticSystems. Applications span aerospace, defense, SIGINT, radar, communications, medical imaging, lidar, ultrasound imaging, and non-destructive testing.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• PCIe RazorEdge Express (16-Bit) Digitizer 16-bit high-speed A/D digitizer with up to 1 GigaSample per second sampling rate, available with 2 or 4 channels, input bandwidths up to 600 MHz, deep onboard sample memory up to 4 GS (8 GB), and true ENOBs up to 12.1 bits, for enterprise signal acquisition applications.
• PCIe RazorMax Express (16-Bit) Digitizer 16-bit high-speed A/D digitizer with up to 1 GigaSample per second sampling rate, available with 2 or 4 channels, input bandwidths up to 600 MHz, deep onboard sample memory up to 4 GS (8 GB), and true ENOBs up to 12.1 bits, for enterprise signal acquisition applications.
• Thunderbolt RazorMax Express (16-Bit) Digitizer 16-bit high-speed A/D digitizer with Thunderbolt interface, up to 1 GigaSample per second sampling rate, 2 or 4 channels, input bandwidths up to 600 MHz, deep onboard sample memory up to 4 GS (8 GB), and true ENOBs up to 12.1 bits.
• PCIe RazorPlus Express (16-Bit) Digitizer 16-bit high-speed A/D digitizer with up to 1 GigaSample per second sampling rate, 2 or 4 channels, input bandwidths up to 600 MHz, deep onboard sample memory up to 4 GS (8 GB), and true ENOBs up to 12.1 bits.
• PCIe Sabre Express (16-Bit) Digitizer 16-bit high-speed A/D digitizer with up to 1 GigaSample per second sampling rate, 2 or 4 channels, input bandwidths up to 600 MHz, deep onboard sample memory up to 4 GS (8 GB), and true ENOBs up to 12.1 bits.
• PCIe RazorEdge Express (14-Bit) Digitizer 14-bit high-speed A/D digitizer with sampling rates up to 500 MegaSamples per second, 2 channels, input bandwidths up to 250 MHz, onboard sample memory up to 4 GS (8 GB), and true ENOBs up to 11.6 bits.
• PCIe RazorPlus Express (14-Bit) Digitizer 14-bit high-speed A/D digitizer with sampling rates up to 500 MegaSamples per second, 2 channels, input bandwidths up to 250 MHz, onboard sample memory up to 4 GS (8 GB), and true ENOBs up to 11.6 bits.
• PCIe EON Express (12-Bit) Digitizer 12-bit high-speed A/D digitizer with sampling rates up to 2 GigaSamples per second on 2 channels or 6 GigaSamples per second on 1 channel, input bandwidths up to 1.75 GHz, onboard memory up to 4 GS (8 GB), and true ENOBs up to 8.9 bits.
• Thunderbolt EON Express (12-Bit) Digitizer 12-bit high-speed A/D digitizer with Thunderbolt interface, sampling rates up to 2 GigaSamples per second on 2 channels or 6 GigaSamples per second on 1 channel, input bandwidths up to 1.75 GHz, onboard memory up to 4 GS (8 GB), and true ENOBs up to 8.9 bits.
• PCIe Cobra Express (8-Bit) Digitizer 8-bit high-speed A/D digitizer with sampling rates up to 4 GigaSamples per second on 1 channel or 2 GigaSamples per second on 2 channels, input bandwidths up to 1.5 GHz, onboard sample memory up to 16 GS (16 GB), and true ENOBs up to 7.6 bits.
• A-27 Series RF Downconverters RF downconverter models covering frequencies from 9 kHz to 27 GHz with instantaneous bandwidths (IBW) from 10 MHz up to 500 MHz, designed to connect to high-speed PCIe Digitizers for signal capture and analysis.
• A-40 Series RF Downconverters RF downconverter models covering wideband frequencies up to 40 GHz with instantaneous bandwidths (IBW) from 10 MHz up to 500 MHz, designed to connect to high-speed PCIe Digitizers for wideband signal capture.
• Ultra-Portable RF Signal Recorders Real-time spectrum analyzer and signal recording solutions in ultra-portable configurations weighing up to 10.8 kg / 24 lb, supporting wideband signal capture, analysis, and recording up to 27 GHz with up to 160 MHz recording bandwidth, broadband spectrum viewing, waterfall displays, and frequency domain triggering.

Quantifiable outcome

• Up to 4x improvement in detectability limit with 16-bit vs 14-bit resolution digitizers
• +3 more outcomes

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• SignateccoreOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing PartnerSignatec products are incorporated into GaGe's product portfolio. GaGe offers Signatec software products including DsScope (IF Signal Recording application) and SpectraScopeRT (RF Signal Recording application) as part of their signal recording solutions.
• KineticSystemscoreOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing PartnerKineticSystems products are incorporated into GaGe's product portfolio, expanding the range of signal recording and data acquisition solutions available under the GaGe brand.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Keysight Technologies: Keysight is a global T&M incumbent with broad digitizer and modular data acquisition product lines that overlap GaGe's offerings, particularly in defense, aerospace, and 5G test, though at significantly larger scale.
• National Instruments (Emerson Test & Measurement): NI/Emerson sells modular PXI data acquisition and digitizer products that overlap GaGe's PCIe-based approach, with broader software ecosystems (LabVIEW) and significant installed base in academic and industrial test.
• Pico Technology: Pico Technology makes PC-based oscilloscopes and data acquisition devices that compete in entry-to-mid-tier T&M and OEM segments adjacent to GaGe's higher-end digitizers.
• ADLINK Technology: ADLINK produces data acquisition cards and modular PXI platforms that overlap with GaGe's PCIe digitizer footprint, serving industrial test, medical imaging, and defense applications.
• Tektronix (Fortive): Tektronix is a long-standing T&M incumbent whose high-performance oscilloscopes and digitizers compete in the same aerospace, defense, and research labs as GaGe, offering broader portfolios and global service networks.

Regional players

• Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions: Curtiss-Wright supplies ruggedized data acquisition and signal recording subsystems to defense primes; it overlaps GaGe's SIGINT/EW value proposition in the U.S. defense vertical but addresses integrated subsystem needs rather than COTS digitizers.

Direct peers

• Spectrum Instrumentation: Spectrum Instrumentation produces PCIe and PXIe digitizers in comparable resolution and sample-rate tiers, directly competing with GaGe in OEM embedded and laboratory test applications.
• Data Translation: Data Translation designs high-speed data acquisition boards and modules competing with GaGe in laboratory, OEM, and industrial test markets, though typically at lower channel counts and sample rates.
• Alazar Technologies: Alazar Technologies is a direct competitor in PCIe digitizers for OCT, ultrasound, and scientific imaging, targeting the same high-speed data acquisition OEM and research segments as GaGe.
• Teledyne SP Devices: Teledyne SP Devices designs high-speed digitizers and data acquisition cards directly competing with GaGe's PCIe digitizers in OEM and T&M channels, with overlapping customer bases in scientific research and OEM instrumentation.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/GageApplied
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Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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