Sarsen Celebrates 14 Successful Years in Business

Way back in the year 2000, when some of us were still at school, an exciting new business opened in the town of Marlborough, UK.

Providing sales, marketing and technical support services for two
USA based manufacturers,
Sarsen Technology was born.

The brain-child of Nigel Norman, Sarsen Technology was established to provide embedded COTS hardware and software to a wide range of customers and market sectors. Nigel has over 25 years’ experience of the electronics and semiconductor industry in design, applications support, technical sales, sales management and business development.

Since 2000, the team has expanded to include additional salespeople, and a number of new departments including Accounts, Marketing and Administration. The significant growth since 2000 has been achieved by offering customers a complete embedded system solution, providing a local liaison from the initial enquiry right through to after-sales technical support.

As part of our ongoing quest for customer satisfaction we added 3 new manufacturers to the product line in 2013, allowing us to support an even greater range of applications that require anything from digital signal processing, data acquisition and single board computing to high-speed data record, playback and storage solutions. We have chosen the companies we work with based on their commitment to customer service as well as for their market-leading technology.

Today Sarsen Technology Limited is a well-established technical representative and distributor based in Marlborough. Committed to providing excellent service and support, we are ISO 9001:2008 registered. You can view a copy of our certificate here (PDF).

If you'd like to have a chat about your requirements our team is on hand to help. You can get in touch with us by calling the office on +44 1672 511166, or you can send us an email - info@sarsen.net.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Tell Us What You Think!

We come to you today with a mission.

Should you choose to accept it, you will have to power to make a change.

We strive to bring high-end technology solutions successfully to market in the shortest possible time, for the benefit of both our customers and the manufacturers we represent. The companies we work with have been chosen for their commitment to customer service as well as for their market-leading technology.

But we can't make improvements to our service and product offering by ourselves... And thats where you come in!

We'd like you to take part in our annual Customer Satisfaction Survey, to help us decide when and if any changes need to be made. Its a great opportunity for you to tell us what you think, and the answers you give us will help us improve our services to you.

You can take the survey by clicking here - Take the Survey

Each complete survey will be reviewed in accordance with our ISO 9001:2008 certified Quality Management System.

And don't forget, "with great power comes great responsibility". So answer wisely.

 Have a great weekend!

Sarsen Technology is Hiring!

We've started the New Year with a lot of focus on the United Electronic Industries product line.

To support this focus we're on the lookout for someone to join the team in an FAE/Sales Engineer

role. We want someone who can provide sales and technical support to both new prospects and existing customers.

If you have a solid technical background and a strong drive to succeed, we're looking for you. The products we supply and support are industry-leading and complex. You would be responsible for sales activity within specified current key accounts and for sales activity at prospects from assigned sales leads.

The skills and experience we are looking for include:

• 2+ years’ experience in an engineering or technical position
• LabVIEW, MATLAB or Simulink programming experience
• Effective written and verbal communications skills
• Programming experience in a PC environment
• Degree in Electronic Engineering, Physics, Computer Science or a related field
• Instrumentation, DAQ or Control system experience
• Linux, QNX, VxWorks or other Real-Time OS experience
• Prior technical support or technical sales experience
• Sound business judgement to quickly identify strong opportunities and action plans
• The ability to work effectively as part of a team
• The ability to quickly build long-term and effective relationships with clients
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Resilience and tenacity
• Independent and creative sales technique
• A full driving licence

If you think you tick these boxes we want to talk to you. Please contact Nigel Norman on +44 1672 511166 or send us an email. 

NO AGENCIES PLEASE

A Trenton Systems Application Story - Oil Field Diagnostics

Amongst a whole host of other things, Trenton Systems designs and manufactures a range of rugged rackmount computer systems for test & measurement applications, including the collection, validation and analysis of data from probes and sensors that measure parameters like temperature, pressure, speed, flow, strain, vibration, humidity & torque.

In this application story we look at the use of a complete Trenton System in an Oil Field Diagnostics project.

The Customer Need
An industry leader in oil exploration and equipment relies on computer systems installed in large tractor-trailer rigs to monitor and record production data in mature oil fields. The systems can also be used in exploratory fields to gather and record geologic data from various sensors in order to determine drilling feasibility. Chassis depth is at a premium in the truck and hard drive shock is a real application concern.

The Trenton Solution
A single board computer and backplane were used in this application due to the variety of option cards (PCI Express, PCI-X and 32-bit/33MHz PCI) used by the customer. The Trenton T4L board using an Intel® Pentium® 4 processor was chosen for its long-life support feature and its low cost. The Trenton backplane chosen was the BPG6600 for the shallow-depth of the 4U computer chassis.

Trenton Value Delivered
Many systems have been delivered and put through rigorous field tests. The customer reported extraordinary performance results with the robust, cost-effective design of the Trenton TML and BPG6600 solution. The customer projected that over the lifetime of the system, Trenton’s ability to provide this same system configuration for several years will provide a significant cost savings by virtually eliminating system re-engineering design costs due to computer component EOL issues.

Trenton Systems offers an industry-leading 5 year warranty on all of their single board computers, backplanes and embedded motherboards.

The BPX8093 is one of the latest releases from Trenton Systems, supporting one PICMG® 1.3 single board computer and up to ten PCI Express I/O cards. Nine of these option card slots are PCI Express 3.0 capable.  Each option card slot uses a x16 PCIe mechanical connector to maximise system design flexibility by supporting a wide range of standard PCI Express I/O cards.

For more information please contact the Sarsen sales team on +44 1672 511166, or email us - info@sarsen.net.

Wind Power Generator Monitor and Control

Wind power is the conversion of wind energy into a useful form of energy, such as using wind turbines to make electrical power or windmills for mechanical power.

The UEIPAC from United Electronic Industries (UEI) is an ideal solution for monitoring and controlling wind power generators, powerful enough to provide control for everything from blade angle to output voltage and log everything from wind speed to power output.

The UEIPAC’s easy access to Ethernet means it can easily run as a slave to a primary host PC when desired, but can take over and run stand-alone if anything happens to the primary communications link. It's very easy to set up - build your application on a Linux PC, or a Windows PC using Cygwin, and once developed, compile your code and download it to the UEIPAC. From there it can run fully stand-alone, or you can keep it on your network to provide updates to your host.

The Cube’s rugged environmental spec eliminates the need for any heating or cooling in the control rack. The standard UEIPAC cubes are tested from -40° to +85° C, at 100 g shock, 5 g vibration and altitudes up to 120,000 feet and are tough enough for the most challenging applications. All I/O is fully isolated from the controller so the UEIPAC is largely immune to the glitches and spikes so commonly seen in the grounds of an industrial environment.

In more complex applications, we have customers running very complex vibration analysis to identify degradation in bearings, transmissions and turbines. This data can then be correlated with other information acquired allowing the implementation of a very powerful predictive maintenance program.

We also have a number of customers who use UEI’s Cubes and RACKtangles as remote communications links. Applications for remote serial communications include wind farms where the system needs to consolidate RS-485 data from a series of turbines and send the data to the supervisory computer.

For more information on the UEIPAC or any of the UEI products please contact the Sarsen team on +44 1672 511166 or email us - info@sarsen.net

Sarsen Technology is Open for Business!

Following a lovely Christmas break, filled with too much wine and chocolate (what exactly is 'too much'?), we are back in the office ready to help with your data acquistion worries, your FPGA hardware headaches and your DSP disasters.

With coffers full of hardware, software and support know-how from the likes of BittWare, Trenton Systems, UEI and ZNYX Networks (not forgetting Dave Embedded Systems, Conduant, Danville, Ecrin, X-ES, VersaLogic, General Standards and Tech Source!) Sarsen Technology is a one-stop-shop for all your embedded system requirements.

You can call us on +44 1672 511166, or drop us an email - info@sarsen.net.

We look forward to working with you in 2014!

BittWare	General Standards
Conduant	Tech Source
Danville Signal Processing	Trenton Systems
Dave Embedded Systems	United Electronic Industries
Ecrin Systems	VersaLogic
Extreme Engineering Solutions	ZNYX Networks