Application: FLASH Memory Programming
Quatech Products Used: SSP-100 single port RS-232 serial PCMCIA card

Field technicians often need to access the FLASH memory of stand-alone devices via a standard serial port. Many laptops no longer ship with a serial port, and Quatech's SSP-100 provides a simple port-expansion solution.

One Quatech customer purchased our SSP-100 cards to solve just this problem for their team of technicians servicing weighing devices such as scales and indicators. This customer was pleased with the Quatech solution, and told us that "more and more laptops are being produced without serial ports, and to buy a laptop with a serial port, as well as a hard drive, floppy drive, and CD-ROM drive, is becoming prohibitively expensive. With your product, we can, hopefully, eliminate the need for a laptop to have an internal serial port, and can reduce our laptop costs and open our laptop vendor options. "

Application: Spallation Neutron Source Project
Quatech Products Used: DSP-100 two port RS-232 serial PCMCIA card

The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) is an accelerator-based neutron source being built in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, by the U.S. Department of Energy. The SNS will provide the most intense pulsed neutron beams in the world for scientific research and industrial development. (For more information see www.sns.gov)

One of the engineers on the project is using Quatech's DSP-100 on a laptop computer to communicate with various vacuum related equipment during construction and installation. The vacuum equipment will include mass spectrometer leak detectors, magnetic sector residual gas analyzers and quadrapole residual gas analyzers.

The data is being processed using a custom application software package and LabView as the data acquisition control system.