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Quatech Selects Nucleus RTOS for ThinQ™ Serial Device Servers

Developers at Quatech thoroughly researched the market for an embedded operating system, deciding on the Nucleus RTOS for a number of reasons. One was the reasonable price of Nucleus RTOS combined with its flexible business model. Since ThinQ serial device servers were designed to be sold in high volumes and at a competitive price, Quatech needed to control costs. Additionally, Quatech viewed Mentor Graphics as a successful embedded OS vendor with a reputation for reliability. With over 14 years of embedded experience, Mentor was seen as the right choice to sell and support embedded technology.

On the hardware side, developers planned to use the Motorola® Semiconductor (now Freescale™ Semiconductor) MPC855T microprocessor and were pleased that Nucleus RTOS already supported this popular chip. Quatech was also interested in its add-on capabilities for future products such as SNMP support, PCMCIA extensions and 802.11b wireless technologies.

ThinQ

Quatech's ThinQ line of wired and wireless serial device servers, available in 1, 2, 4 and 8-port models, are the industry's performance leaders. Released with a host of unique features and the industry's most powerful microprocessor, Quatech's entry into the serial device server marketplace set new benchmarks for performance, ease-of-use and flexibility. Those with mission-critical applications requiring maximum reliability, complete emulation of a local serial COM port, the lowest latency possible, or very high (up to 921K) baud rates are discovering that ThinQ is the best serial-to-Ethernet solution available anywhere.