Woburn, MA USA – May 10, 2007. Strategic Test Corp. has announced new and updated Linux drivers for its range of UltraFast Waveform Digitizer, Arbitrary Waveform Generator and fast Digital I/O boards.
The new drivers include 64-bit versions for the RedHat, SuSe and Fedora distributions, together with updates for their 32-bit drivers that support kernels 2.4 and 2.6.
The following Linux distributions are currently supported:
| Suse 9.0 |
2.4.21 |
32 bit |
| Suse 9.1 |
2.6.4 |
32 bit |
| SuSe 9.3 |
2.6.11 |
32 bit |
| SuSe 10.0 |
2.6.13 |
32 bit and 64 bit |
| SuSe 10.1 |
2.6.16 |
32 bit and 64 bit |
| SuSe 10.2 |
2.6.18 |
32 bit and 64 bit |
| Redhat 9.0 |
2.4.20 |
32 bit |
| Fedora Core 3 |
2.6.9 |
32 bit |
| Fedora Core 4 |
2.6.11 |
32 bit |
| Fedora Core 5 |
2.6.15 |
32 bit and 64 bit |
| Fedora Core 6 |
2.6.18 |
32 bit and 64 bit |
| Debian Sarge |
2.4.27 |
32 bit |
| Debian Sarge |
2.6.8 |
32 bit |
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The driver source code is available upon request. This is important since the transition from 2.4 to 2.6 kernels may cause the user to recompile the driver on their host PC, particularly if they have modified the distribution for multi-processor operation. It can also be used to port the driver to other Linux distributions such as Scientific Linux and operating systems including VxWorks.
The same simple programming concept is found in all Windows and Linux drivers, allowing customers to upgrade their OS without modifying their application code.
In line with the company’s policy of free-of-charge lifetime software updates, the drivers can be downloaded from the company website support area.
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About Strategic Test
With a product range of more than 150 high-speed Digitizer, Arbitrary Waveform Generator and high-speed Digital I/O PCI, 3U PXI and 6U CompactPCI cards, Strategic Test Corporation is one of the leading suppliers of high-speed PC-based instruments. The UltraFast cards are designed at the R&D facility in northern Germany and distributed through our offices in Woburn (MA) and Stockholm (Sweden).
The first high-speed measurement card for PC’s was designed in 1989. The current UF2 range is the forth design generation and uses the PCI-X 66 MHz/32-bit PCI bus to provide data transfer rates of up to 225 MB/s for shorter test times. With up to 4 GBytes of card memory and up to 16 channels per card, the UF2 series has the deepest memory on a single card and offers some of the lowest cost/channel Digitizer, AWG and Digital I/O cards available. Strategic Test’s clients include global electronics, semiconductor, defense, telecommunications and medical instrument companies, government funded research labs and universities in five continents.
Caption: New Linux drivers for PC Instrument boards
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