What ALAZAR TECHNOLOGIES INC. does

Alazar Technologies Inc. (AlazarTech) is a privately held Canadian designer and manufacturer of high-performance waveform digitizers and PC-based oscilloscope/data acquisition systems, headquartered in Pointe-Claire, Quebec. Its portfolio spans PCI Express and Thunderbolt 3 boards with 8-bit to 16-bit resolution and sampling rates from 20 MS/s to 10 GS/s, used to convert high-speed analog signals into digital data for PC-based acquisition, display, storage, and analysis. Core architectural differentiators include Dual Port Memory (invented 2005) for gapless streaming, Variable Frequency ADC Clock support for swept-source OCT, On-FPGA FFT engines, and OCT Ignore Bad Clock handling. The firm is certified to ISO 9001:2015 and operates a Custom Engineering Group that modifies firmware, software and PCBs for OEM customers.

AlazarTech sells primarily through direct quote-based sales and a network of authorized distributors covering China, France, Korea, and Taiwan, supported by dedicated logistics operations in Champlain, NY (via A.N. Deringer) and Rozenburg-Schiphol, Netherlands (via Shypple Logistics). Its customer base is horizontal, segmented into OEM manufacturers embedding digitizers into medical imaging, communications and consumer electronics systems; manufacturing test facilities using digitizers for QC and pass/fail testing; and research & development groups working on quantum computing, OCT, fiber sensing, radar/lidar, and RF applications. Notable named users include Harvard University researchers using AlazarTech boards for semiconductor spin qubit readout in quantum computing.

Revenue is generated through three streams: hardware product sales (PCIe/Thunderbolt 3 boards and chassis), software licenses and subscriptions (ATS-SDK, ATS-GPU libraries requiring annual maintenance keys), and professional services from the Custom Engineering Group. Pricing is not publicly disclosed; customers must register and submit a quote request. 95% of customers are outside Quebec, and the company emphasizes long product lifecycles, application-specific feature depth, and the passing through of falling IC cost reductions rather than maintaining industry-standard margins. AlazarTech is founder-led (President Muneeb Khalid, ex-Gage Applied Sciences/Tektronix) with no public ticker, no disclosed external funding rounds, and ownership structure appears to be founder-held.

Name

ALAZAR TECHNOLOGIES INC.

Legal name

Alazar Technologies Inc.

Website

https://alazartech.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2001

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

AlazarTech designs and manufactures PCI Express and Thunderbolt 3 waveform digitizers (8-bit to 16-bit, up to 10 GS/s) plus supporting software and custom engineering services for OEM manufacturers, manufacturing test facilities, and R&D groups in OCT, quantum computing, fiber sensing, and radar/lidar applications.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Pointe-claire

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Hardware Product Sales: AlazarTech generates revenue primarily from the sale of waveform digitizer hardware products, including PCI Express cards, Thunderbolt 3 boards, and chassis expansion systems. Products range from 8-bit to 16-bit resolution with sampling rates from 20 MS/s to 10 GS/s. The company sells directly to end-users and through authorized distributors globally.
2. Software Licenses (ATS-SDK, ATS-GPU): The company sells software development kits (ATS-SDK, ATS-GPU-BASE, ATS-GPU-OCT, ATS-GPU-NUFFT) that provide APIs, drivers, and libraries for interfacing with digitizer hardware. Software is distributed via Alazar Package Manager with license key activation. Annual maintenance/subscription is required for continued software updates.
3. Custom Engineering Services: AlazarTech's Custom Engineering Group works with OEM customers to produce customized solutions, including modifications to software, FPGA firmware, and printed circuit boards to meet specific application requirements. This represents a professional services revenue stream for specialized customer needs.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels7 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

AlazarTech designs, manufactures, and sells PC-based waveform digitizers (PCI Express and Thunderbolt 3 form factors) ranging from 8-bit to 16-bit resolution and 20 MS/s to 10 GS/s sampling rates. The company bundles these with related software (AlazarDSO oscilloscope application, ATS-SDK development kit, GPU-accelerated signal processing libraries) and offers custom engineering services through its Custom Engineering Group for OEM customers requiring tailored firmware, software, or PCB modifications.

Product overview

AlazarTech is a manufacturer of high-performance waveform digitizers and PC oscilloscopes available in PCI Express and Thunderbolt 3 form factors. The product portfolio spans from entry-level 12-bit, 20 MS/s digitizers to flagship 12-bit, 10 GS/s PCI Express Gen4 x16 models. Resolution options include 8-bit, 12-bit, 14-bit, and 16-bit devices with sampling rates from 20 MS/s to 10 GS/s, supporting 1 to 16 channels. Key enabling technologies include Dual Port Memory for gapless streaming, variable frequency external clock for OCT applications, on-FPGA FFT processing, and OCT Ignore Bad Clock technology. Supporting software includes AlazarDSO oscilloscope application, ATS-SDK (C/C++, MATLAB, LabVIEW, Python), and GPU acceleration libraries (ATS-GPU-BASE, ATS-GPU-OCT, ATS-GPU-NUFFT). An expansion chassis (ATSRM3801) extends system capabilities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• ATS9380 Waveform Digitizer 10 GS/s, 12-bit PCI Express Gen4 x16 waveform digitizer with 12 GS dual-port memory and up to 20 GB/s throughput; flagship AlazarTech digitizer for OEM embedding and high-speed acquisition.
• ATS9373 Waveform Digitizer 12-bit PCI Express waveform digitizer sampling one analog input up to 4 GS/s or two inputs at 2 GS/s, with on-FPGA FFT processing; supports OCT and gapless streaming applications.
• ATS9360 Waveform Digitizer 12-bit, 1.8 GS/s PCI Express waveform digitizer with on-FPGA FFT support for RF and signal analysis applications.
• ATS9364 Waveform Digitizer 12-bit, 1 GS/s PCI Express waveform digitizer for general-purpose high-speed signal acquisition.
• ATS9371 Waveform Digitizer 12-bit, 1 GS/s PCI Express waveform digitizer with on-FPGA FFT processing for high-speed signal analysis.
• ATS9872 Waveform Digitizer 8-bit dual-channel PCI Express waveform digitizer sampling two analog inputs at rates up to 1 GS/s.
• ATS9362 Waveform Digitizer Low-noise 12-bit dual-channel PCI Express waveform digitizer sampling two analog inputs up to 750 MS/s.
• ATS9352 Waveform Digitizer 12-bit, 500 MS/s PCI Express waveform digitizer with on-FPGA FFT processing.
• ATS9353 Waveform Digitizer 12-bit, 500 MS/s PCI Express waveform digitizer with on-FPGA FFT processing.
• ATS9628 Waveform Digitizer 16-bit, 250 MS/s dual-channel PCI Express digitizer with 256 MS dual-port memory per channel and fixed DC coupling for high-resolution signal acquisition.
• ATS9462 Waveform Digitizer 16-bit, 180 MS/s PCI Express waveform digitizer for high-resolution applications.
• ATS9428 Waveform Digitizer 14-bit, 250 MS/s dual-channel PCI Express digitizer with 256 MS dual-port memory per channel and fixed DC coupling.
• ATS9416 Waveform Digitizer 14-bit, 100 MS/s, 16-channel PCI Express waveform digitizer designed for high-channel-count signal acquisition.
• ATS9442 Waveform Digitizer 4-channel, 14-bit, 125 MS/s PCI Express Gen 2 waveform digitizer for multi-channel signal acquisition.
• ATS9440 Waveform Digitizer 14-bit, 125 MS/s, 4-channel PCI Express waveform digitizer for multi-channel applications.
• ATS9146 Waveform Digitizer 14-bit, 125 MS/s, 2-channel PCI Express waveform digitizer.
• ATS9130 Waveform Digitizer 12-bit, 50 MS/s, 2-channel PCI Express waveform digitizer.
• ATS9120 Waveform Digitizer 12-bit, 20 MS/s, 2-channel PCI Express waveform digitizer, entry-level model in the AlazarTech product line.
• ATST364 Thunderbolt 3 Digitizer 12-bit, 1 GS/s Thunderbolt 3 waveform digitizer enabling high-speed acquisition on laptops and external PCs without internal PCIe slots.
• ATST872 Thunderbolt 3 Digitizer 8-bit, 1 GS/s Thunderbolt 3 waveform digitizer.
• ATST352 Thunderbolt 3 Digitizer 12-bit dual-channel Thunderbolt 3 waveform digitizer sampling two analog inputs up to 500 MS/s.
• ATST146 Thunderbolt 3 Digitizer 14-bit, 125 MS/s, 2-channel Thunderbolt 3 waveform digitizer for portable high-resolution acquisition.
• AlazarDSO Software PC oscilloscope emulation application for control, display, and data acquisition with AlazarTech waveform digitizers; provides a turnkey oscilloscope-style interface for Windows.
• ATS-SDK Software Development Kit Software development kit providing C/C++, MATLAB, LabVIEW, and Python interfaces for controlling AlazarTech waveform digitizers; distributed via Alazar Package Manager with annual maintenance/subscription.
• ATS-GPU-BASE Software Library GPU-based software library for processing data acquired by AlazarTech waveform digitizers; enables offload of signal processing to GPU for higher throughput.
• ATS-GPU-OCT Software Library GPU-based OCT signal processing library optimized for optical coherence tomography applications using AlazarTech digitizers.
• ATS-GPU-NUFFT Software Library GPU-based Non-Uniform Fast Fourier Transform (NUFFT) library for advanced signal processing on data acquired by AlazarTech digitizers.
• ATSRM3801 PCIe Expansion Chassis Gen3 x8 PCIe Expansion System chassis that houses AlazarTech waveform digitizer boards in an external enclosure for host systems without sufficient internal PCIe slots.
• Custom Engineering Services Custom Engineering Group service that delivers tailored modifications to AlazarTech software, FPGA firmware, and PCBs to meet specific OEM customer requirements.

Quantifiable outcome

• ATS9380 achieves up to 20 GB/s throughput with 12 GS dual-port memory
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Acquisys (China)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAuthorized distributor for China. Room 1009, Block B, Building 1, ZhongFuTai Building, No. 10, GuangKe 1st Road, LongTian Street, PingShan District, ShenZhen, GuangDong, P.R. China, 518122. Contact: Jia Qing. Tel: +86-755-82501266 / +86-138-23782557.
• Acquisys (France)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAuthorized distributor for France. 30 avenue Robert Surcouf, 78960 Voisins le Bretonneux, France. Contact: Katia PAYET. Tel: +33 (0) 1 3452 4090.
• Coreray, CorpcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAuthorized distributor for Korea. 424 ho Doan The LIV SIGnature 43, Bogyongdong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Republic of Korea (34202). Contact: Eric Lee. Tel: +82 42 825 7084. Website: www.coreray.kr.
• ASTORIA-PACIFIC ASIA Co. Ltd.coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAuthorized distributor for Taiwan. 25F No. 167, Sec. 1 Xintai 5th Rd., Xizhi Dist., New Taipei City 22175, Taiwan. Contact: Wayne Chiu. Tel: +886-2-8646-4129 / +886-910-258-301. Website: www.astoria-pacific.com.tw.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Tektronix: Tektronix acquired Gage Applied Sciences in 2000 and is a broad incumbent in oscilloscopes, digitizers, and signal analysis. AlazarTech competes against Tektronix's modular/PCIe offerings while targeting OEM-embedded niches Tektronix largely does not serve.
• Keysight Technologies: Keysight is the largest pure-play T&M incumbent (electrical/electronic measurement, oscilloscopes, modular PXI). Competes with AlazarTech in high-speed digitization but serves a far broader portfolio and customer set, including telecom/RF.
• National Instruments (NI / Emerson): NI (now part of Emerson) provides PXI modular digitizers and a LabVIEW-centric measurement ecosystem. Overlaps with AlazarTech on LabVIEW SDK and modular high-speed acquisition, particularly for OEM test.
• Teledyne LeCroy: Teledyne LeCroy manufactures high-end oscilloscopes and modular digitizers (including SP Devices). A broad incumbent that overlaps with AlazarTech in OCT, serial data, and high-speed serial bus analysis.

Direct peers

• Spectrum Instrumentation: Spectrum Instrumentation is a direct competitor making PCIe-based digitizers and arbitrary waveform generators for OEM and R&D test & measurement. Overlapping resolution (8/12/14/16 bit) and sampling-rate ranges, similar SDK-based software strategy, and European manufacturing footprint compete head-to-head with AlazarTech in industrial/scientific T&M.
• GaGe (Vitrek): GaGe Applied Sciences (the very company co-founded by AlazarTech's founder before being sold to Tektronix) is now a Vitrek brand continuing to build PCI/PCIe digitizers. Strong overlap in product form factor, SDK approach, and OEM customer base in OCT and radar.
• ADLINK Technology: ADLINK builds PCIe/PXI digitizer cards and modular T&M boards for OEM and industrial customers. Competes on similar specifications (resolution, sampling rate, channels) and SDK integration.
• Teledyne SP Devices (Teledyne LeCroy): Teledyne SP Devices (acquired by Teledyne LeCroy) is the closest direct peer — both companies design high-performance, modular PCI Express / PXI digitizers for OEM and scientific use. Same target customers (quantum, OCT, radar, lidar), same form factor, similar sampling-rate/resolution portfolio.
• Mercury Systems / Pentek: Pentek (now Mercury Systems) makes high-performance modular data acquisition boards and FPGA-based signal processing for defense, SIGINT, and OEM test. Direct overlap in high-speed A/D boards, FPGA firmware, and OEM embedded integration.
• Signatec / DynamicSignals (now part of Acal BFi / WE-EF): Signatec built high-speed PCI/PCIe digitizers and was acquired by DynamicSignals; both are historical direct competitors in the modular digitizer space for OEM and R&D markets (radar, ultrasonics, OCT). Direct overlap in product form factor and customer base.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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