From ATE to Space

Salland has grown to a successful partner with a worldwide reputation and is one of the world's largest companies that offer Test Application support and Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) Products & Tools for the semiconductor market. Salland is headquartered in The Netherlands with sister companies in Singapore and the USA to offer worldwide support.

Because of our known-how in the test business, we were contracted by SRON in 1993 to help develop the SCOE (Satellite Check Out Equipment) for SCIAMACHY (SCanning Imaging Absorption spectroMeter for Atmospheric CHartograpY). This was the start of a successful partnership in space related projects.

Knowledge and expertise

Over the years we have developed knowledge and expertise on a wide range of technology. Due to the demanding nature of today's competitive market, we are always investigating the latest promising developments for use in our projects. We have a vast expertise, both hard- and software, on the Wintel platform, but are also fluid on other platforms like UNIX, Linux and VAX/VMS. The program language of choice is C/C++, using the latest development tools (Microsoft Visual Studio, MFC). We also have a vast know-how on network protocols like TCP/IP, a must in nowadays projects, where multiple computers are linked together to perform the required tasks.

Projects

Development of a SCOE and engineering support for SCIAMACHY.

Keywords for this project: Sun Sparc station Real-time high-speed 8-channel single line CCD data acquisition GPIB/IEEE-488.2 controlled power supply, Ramp Generator and DVM Terminal Server for multiple RS232 devices Data analysis tools in IDL Tailor-made software package written in C

Development of an iEGSE (Instrument Electronic Ground Support Equipment) for OMI (Ozone Measurement Instrument). The OMI is one of four instruments on EOS Aura, the third in a series of Earth Observing Satellites to study atmospheric chemistry.

Keywords for this project: Wintel platform (NT 4.0 Workstation) Real time high-speed dual channel two-dimensional CCD data acquisition Custom made PCI cards GPIB/IEEE-488.2 controlled power supplies High precision Analog Input and Output interface Stepper Motor control Database (via ODBC) driven test language Tailor-made software package written in C/C++ using MFC Due to high level of integration complete EGSE fits in single 19" rack

At your service

Salland Engineering delivers not only a technical solution but also offers a high-tech competence, after sales and partnership. Our strategy is to be a real business partner and to create solutions, which are created according to our customer needs and satisfy the needs as well as their future wishes. The keystone of our success is our personal approach of our customers and our experienced people.