High Reliability and Quality as Standard....

One of the most important considerations when choosing the manufacturers we work with is the reliability of their products.

All the products available from our principals are designed from the ground up for high reliability, and manufactured and tested to the highest quality standards.

With every piece of hardware warrantied for at least 1 year, you can rest assured that the risk of your boards or system malfunctioning is extremely low.*
*Obviously if you drop it, sit on it, or allow it to fall down the loo (it happens) then the warranty is void. 

This computer probably wouldn't be covered under warranty......

Trenton Systems are particularly aware of the importance of the quality and reliability of their products. They offer a 5 year warranty on all of their PICMG 1.3 single board computers, backplanes and embedded motherboards, and maintain strict quality control standards during the fabrication and testing process. Inspections are performed at each critical stage on the factory floor.

Trenton's factory in the USA

 Trenton have also announced a new series of computing system configuration options that make it easier for customers to meet UL and CE certification requirements in industrial computing and video display wall controller applications.

For information on warranties, life cycles and quality standards for all of our manufacturers please get in touch on +44 1672 511166, or by email - info@sarsen.net

Sarsen Technology Adds to the Obesity Crisis

We really do work with some lovely people....

The exceptionally nice folks at Sema4 have sent over a box of goodies today, and of course it would be rude not to open it and share the contents.

Yes, thats right, share. "One for me, one for you. One for me, one for me, one for me.... one for you!"

Thanks very much for reminding us that diets are over-rated and that biscuits are way better!

In the Spotlight - Trenton Systems Medical Imaging Technology

'Medical Imaging' is the process used to create images of the human body to reveal, diagnose, or examine disease or injury. There are a variety of types, each using specific technology to generate a different image.

Sarsen Technology supplies high speed data acquisition and powerful embedded computing hardware for these kinds of applications -

• Computed Tomography (CT Scanning)
• Digital Radiography
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
• Nuclear Medicine Imaging
• Medical Image Processing
• Cardiovascular X-ray

Advances in medical imaging technology mean image quality and rendering speed are always being improved. X86 multi-core processor innovations supply increased processing power while reducing cost and size, which allows departments like Ultrasound, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Nuclear Medicine Imaging (NMI) and Cardiovascular X-ray to benefit from advances in high performance computing and image processing.

Medical system technology also has very demanding support requirements. Once stringent medical equipment approvals are in place, customers rely on their suppliers for long-term product supply and support.

To meet the needs of the medical industry, Trenton Systems designs products with longevity and reliability in mind, using processors with 7 year availability and offering a 5 year factory warranty on single board computers, backplanes and embedded motherboards. Using dual Intel multi-core processors in conjunction with PCI Express Gen 2 bus technology means these platforms can easily satisfy high-bandwidth medical imaging applications.

For more information on the work that Trenton are doing in the medical technology market place please get in touch, either by phone +44 1672 511166 or email us - info@sarsen.net

Cytometry – BittWare Have It Sorted!

Cytometers are instruments that measure the properties of single cells, one cell at a time. They can measure cell size, cell granularity, and the amounts of cell components such as DNA and proteins.

Flow cytometers take in a suspension of cells and run them single file past a laser beam. The laser is used to count different cell populations based on the light that their specific labels emit.

Biological cell classification is a highly complex process, made possible by digital signal processing. In the past, flow cytometry and cell sorting systems have used complex, custom analog circuitry that has remained unchanged for years. BittWare has worked with customers to develop systems that use both DSPs and FPGAs working together to provide the processing. This has created intelligent systems that also provide a high level of flexibility and re-programmability, enabling them to be somewhat general purpose, yet capable of being tailored to the requirements of specific, in this case, medical applications.

BittWare were approached by a customer with a very specific requirement. Their challenge was to provide a very high system throughput - 64 channels of 105 MHz ADC, real-time processing of unpredictable and changing data, a very high level of flexibility for rapid adaptation and updating, along with extended precision and dynamic range.

When the customer started designing their prototype they used DSP, which worked but didn’t give them the flexibility they needed. BittWare took over and created a hybrid signal processing design – DSP + FPGA, which lowered costs and increased flexibility.

Adding an FPGA to the mix meant the number of DSPs could be halved, significantly reducing the overall system cost. The hybrid solution provided the best of both worlds with the DSPs satisfying the need for sustained, low-latency, high-throughput processing, and the FPGAs providing fast, repetitive front-end processing and system flexibility.

For more information on DSP and FPGA technology from BittWare please get in touch - info@sarsen.net.

Have a great weekend!

It's Medical March!

So we've had Green January and Financial February.... Now it's Medical March! We'll be bringing you all the coolest tech available from Sarsen, as well as application stories and innovations from this market sector.

Pretty exciting stuff I know!

Many of our manufacturers have products that are specifically designed with medical applications in mind. There are many factors that designers need to take into consideration when designing an embedded system for medical use, and one of the most important is long term availability. Once a product is designed in, and has undergone rigorous testing and approval processes, it could be in production or need support for upwards of 10 years.

 

VersaLogic Corp design a range of embedded computer products with guaranteed long term availability, as well as offering product life-cycle management to help eliminate product redesigns.

The Falcon EPU module from VersaLogic is an extremely small and rugged embedded computer, which been engineered and tested to meet the Medical industrys evolving requirements to develop smaller, lighter, and lower power embedded systems while adhering to stringent regulatory standards.

It's one of the smallest boards on the market, around the size of a credit card, and it's less than 1" thick so it is a great option for space constrained high reliability applications in the medical sector.

VL-EPU-2610 'Falcon' from VersaLogic

For more information get in touch with the sales team here at Sarsen. You can call the office on +44 1672 511166, or drop us an email - info@sarsen.net.