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Andy Norrie

HD PPM ‘Plus’ – Major update!

The HD ‘Plus’ update is a major Firmware and FPGA update for the QTL1999 and QTL1995 Quarch product range. Improved accuracy and more. Given the benefits, schedule an update for all you current PPM units.

Posted: 2nd June 2023
Views: 190

Andy Norrie

What do you need to test CXL?

The great news is that Quarch products designed for PCIe are protocol agnostic and can be used to test any PCIe compliant device. This means that our existing range of award winning products can be used for CXL. If you have existing Quarch products in your lab then you could repurpose them today!
Posted: 31st May 2023
Views: 326

Andy Norrie

Automated test plan for SSDs

For SSDs and other similar devices, there are common problems that occur, so key tests that should be run as early as possible during development. This is a summary of tests recommended by Quarch, which can be easily automated for regression testing. These tests can be run manually by using the TestMonkey application or a Terminal program to issue commands.  Python scripting for automated testing is the recommended approach, however.
Posted: 7th April 2023
Views: 106

Kyle McRobert

Automotive Physical Layer Testing

How does Quarch fit into the automotive testing industry? We have been the industry standard for physical layer testing across a range of industries such as drive manufacturing, data storage systems, networking, telecommunications and more for over 15 years.
Posted: 6th April 2023
Views: 247

Denise Rooney

Plus and Minus – EV Show London 2022

A blog review of our attendance at the EV Show London 2022 at the Excel Center, London. Quarch Technology were first-time attendees.

Posted: 19th January 2023
Views: 254

Andy Norrie

EDSFF is complex!

What is EDSFF? Development for a new standard of SSD interface came to our attention around 2016 with a prototype of what became the E1.L form factor.
Posted: 10th January 2023
Views: 282

Andy Norrie

Anker 757 – Power analysis tests

The Anker 757 PowerHouse is a high-capacity battery. We decided to run it through a series of tests on our brand-new mains power analysis product. We used our latest prototype, the IEC Power Analysis Module (or PAM).

Posted: 6th December 2022
Views: 333

Stuart Boon

Power state test in QCS

Power state test in QCS. By comparing the power consumption in each state to the drive’s stated power consumption in its SMART data, this test aims to determine whether a drive is performing.
Posted: 16th August 2022
Views: 354

Denise Rooney

Winner of FMS Most Innovative Sustainability Technology

The Flash Memory Summit is the World’s largest and most prestigious storage industry conference and exposition announced today that the Quarch Power Analysis Module was named the winner of Most Innovative Sustainability Technology at Flash Memory Summit 2022.

Posted: 4th August 2022
Views: 893

Andy Norrie

Fault injecting on Ethernet

We’re using our own tools to help track down a customer issue. The ‘Signal Glitching’ option on Testmonkey, starts with a single 10mS glitch on all pairs. This quickly allowed us to find two issues – an incorrectly set command timeout and a delay in the HD network stack.
Posted: 6th May 2022
Views: 21173

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