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.

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