Transgalactic Instruments (TGI) is a small high-tech company with extensive hard- and software development resources, manufacturing computerized instrumentation for the nuclear measurement market. Our products are developed in-house down to the board level - we buy our silicon and passive components, as well as certain computer parts - displays, disks, keyboards etc. Our software is written and tested using our own tools under DPS - our OS which runs on our computers, PPC or, earlier, 68K based. We use our own software tools - under DPS - for circuit and PCB design. Our products range from computer hardware and highly sophisticated software to precision, wide bandwidth analog instruments.

Sometimes we also do contract designs for other manufacturers.

On the nuclear market, we manufacture our state-of-the-art modular and portable Nukeman spectroscopy system to which any kind of semiconductor or scintilation or other detectors can be connected and which does everything from data acquisition to qualitative and quantitative analysis.

DPS and the software we have working here meanwhile exceed 1 million lines in over 30 megabytes of sources.

TGI remains commited to the nuclear market and will continue to develop both new instrumentation and computer hard- and software.

TGI was founded and remains owned by Dimiter Popoff, who is the author of all hardware designs and all of the software. Ventseslav Venev is the author of all our plastic enclosure designs.

The name originates from the dark communistic ages (around 1980) when dreaming of a private high-tech company looked more like a health issue so there had to be some sense of humour in it along with the hard work (done in an attick back then). In 88, the founder left ("defected", as they then had it...) Bulgaria and worked for a German company, designing the first ever single board MCAs for NaI and Ge detectors (known as the TISA and ISA boards). Somewhat disillusioned about how easy it would be to start a new company at the correct side of the iron curtain he moved to Bulgaria several years after the curtain had fallen, officially founded TGI and well, the name remained - as did the urge to design and deliver products which live up to it.