Quarch-Technology
Quarch Technology Limited, headquarted in Aviemore, Scotland is a world leading supplier of automated test tools for Storage systems. Quarch's scalable test systems enable manufactures of data storage to get to market faster with a more reliable product. Quarch products can be highly customised allowing the system to achieve a very rapid return on investment in any test environment.
New Products
Hot Swap, Signal Breaker & Fault Injection
Industry-standard fault testing without the complexity
In systems like data storage, telecommunications, networking, or AI in autonomous vehicles or aviation, testing for robust communication is critical.
Quarch Technology’s Torridon system can be scaled to cover every testing requirement—from a single device in early R&D, to 1000+ drives in a huge array along with all its supporting cable interconnects.
Run thousands of device power cycles without manual intervention. Perform repeatable industry-standard tests, with highly accurate timing, and simulate physical layer faults for validation testing.
- Used by most major companies working on SSD design, Communications silicon, Telecomms interfacing and more.
- Part of mandatory testing schedule for NVMe drives at the UNH-IOL Plugfests, to prove the reliability and robustness of NVMe.
- Support for the latest generation interfaces, including PCIe Gen4 and Gen5, plus 100G LAN over QSFP28.
- Support for PCIe, NVMe, CXL and OCP devices.
| Drive Module - Hot Plug/Breaker Modules | Card Module - Hot Plug/Breaker Modules | Cable Pull/Breaker Modules | Automotive Multi-Protocol Breaker |
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Power Analysis
Power testing for sustainable development
Whether you’re in design, testing, product reviewing, or marketing, having high-quality power data is essential.
Understanding device power consumption is vital for creating sustainable products, as issues like consumption, heat output, and costs grow each year. Energy standards, such as the SNIA emerald standard and the US energy star rating, are rapidly increasing, making it essential to showcase your products’ energy credentials. Quarch tools offer a unique blend of simplicity and power at a competitive price compared to other market analyses.
Quarch power analysis benefits
- Plug-and-play fixing, setup in seconds
- Support for a huge range of DC and AC devices
- High-resolution, calibrated measurements
- Powerful analysis applications
- Simple automation with full access to raw data
- Long-term recording
Automotive
Explore solutions for Electrical Vehicles and beyond
Innovations in automated testing and measurement for safety and efficiency. Digital transformation is sweeping the automotive industry at an unprecedented pace. Engineers face new challenges as high-speed data communications, power electronics, and battery technology enable safer, more efficient vehicles. To meet today’s challenges and those yet to come, Quarch provides automotive testing solutions.
- 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.
- Quarch power analysis solutions span from the measurement of low-power DC electronics to 3-phase AC charging. All are backed by our extensive automation framework and powerful analysis software.
- Automotive Multi-Protocol Breaker A versatile tool from Quarch, a standalone fault injection and monitoring device for testing critical communication links in the automotive industry and beyond. It can support many communication links from CAN to 1000Base T1 Ethernet.
Physical Layer Switches
Automated re-cabling for test systems
With Quarch switches you can reconfigure your test rack with simple, remote commands.
Automate connections between multiple devices and run tests 24/7. Duplicate signals to multiple pieces of test equipment and share expensive tools, such as analyzers and traffic generators, between multiple tests.
Quarch’s physical layer switches are completely transparent at the protocol layer, so devices behave as though directly cabled. Our SAS/SATA and USB switches re-drive your signal without re-timing it, ensuring no errors are masked.
Our physical layer switches are used by RAID developers, IC designers, test labs and driver developers, and for motherboard and host design and testing.
- Improve test automation and test coverage.
- Avoid mistakes made during manual cable changes.
- Get better use of of limited test equipment.
NVMe Plugfest Testing
Going to an NVMe Plugfest to gain compliance test results for your equipment? Get the right kit and advice to make sure you are ready to pass!
Cable Tester
Easy to use and with a comprehensive set of reporting capabilities, the Cable Tester allows the kind of pre-emptive checks that will minimize debugging time and accelerate quality screening.
Software
Get the best from your Quarch products.
With our powerful software tools, you can visualise huge power traces, automate large test plans and much more. Our primary tools include:
- Quarch Compliance Suite (QCS)
- Automated suite for running tests on data storage devices. This gives you access to years of Quarch testing experience in minutes
- Quarch Power Studio (QPS)
- Record long traces from our range of PPM and PAM instruments and view every detail of the performance of your device. Power consumption is the main use case, but we can also display custom data and capture digital sidebands from supporting devices.
- Quarchpy Python library
- Compatible with Python 2 and 3, this gives you full control over Quarch products and also automation of other software such as QPS
- Quarch Instrument Server (QIS)
- The power behind QPS, this server app is also provided as part of Quarchpy and allows you to capture raw power data easily without the need to run the QPS visual application.
Compliance Suite allows fully automated testing with no need to develop your own test cases or automation systems. Quarch test cases cover a wide range of hot-plug, pin bounce and timing tests to ensure your system is stable in all cases and can handle likely physical layer faults that will occur in the field.
Controller & Accessories
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