PC Services

"From Payroll to Body Scanners"

PC Services

Computer & Electronic Design Consultancy

Tel: 0118 946 3634
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"We sell Solutions, not products"

PC Services is a consulting company based in Reading, Berks., United Kingdom, about 40 miles West of London. The company specialise in General, Scientific, Industrial and Medical computing (on systems from embedded to much larger), using many methods including Image Processing, Process Control, and other methods. This is supplied in many forms, from consulting to provide a specificiation to supplying a complete system.

PC Services, specialises in consultancy and contracting services for- General, Scientific, Industrial & Medical Computing, web site design/hosting, system configuartion and maintenance. Using various technologies to suit the requirements of each application, areas already covered range from 'Payroll to body-scanners'.

News (September 2012)

Pricing finalised for range of GPIO expansion boards for the Raspberry Pi.

News (September 2012)

First prototypes of range of GPIO expansion boards for the Raspberry Pi providing level translation and protection circuits.

News (August 2012)

Current Developments include a range of GPIO expansion boards for the Raspberry Pi providing level translation and protection circuits.

News (July 2012)

Coming soon Windows 7/Vista and Server 2008 woes. The confusions or non-obvious things in their setups.

News (July 2012)

For those who do not have Terrabyte disks on Win 7 (Updated Acronyms meanings), and similar, do a properties on your Windows directory tree. We have seen machines less than 3 months old with 16 to 20 GigaBytes for the Windows tree, especially Winsxs (Windows Side by Side to avoid DLL hell), no wonder things like Android and Linux are popular.

News (July 2012)

After recent hassles with Win 7 and Server 2008 and their silly wizards Updated Acronyms meanings.
Also updated Random Thoughts.

News (March 2012)

Addition of extra libraries for Eagle CAD software.

News (May 2011)

Addition of FAQs for Timing Diagram Font covering Technical and Licensing issues.

Addition of Random Thoughts on variety of topics..

News (March 2011)

Updated Timing Diagram Font method from download to request.

News (July 2010)

Updated FTDI chip library for Eagle software made available.

Addition of USB to SPI master board using FT2232D.

News (June 2010)

Updated Picogate library for Eagle software made available.

News (January 2010)

Add PHP/Database/styling/webpage tips section. Split various sections into better layout. General redesign of the site and additions.

News (January 2008)

Add Usage tips for Timing Font as supplied by satisfied user.
Update Eagle library for RAMTRON FRAM parts to fix bug.

News (October 2007)

Add new font download for those engineers wanting to put timing diagrams into their documents

News (May 2007)

Add Eagle CAD software libraries page and link from FTDI page

News (April 2007)

Add FTDI example application pages

News (November 2005)

Revamp and restructuring of the site in preparation for moving hosting, and the process of dropping the pcserv.demon.co.uk domain after 11 years.

News (December 2004)

Currently in the UK there is legislation, that came into effect January 2005 on Electrical Installation Safety, to deal with inspection, certification of installers and inspectors and similar. Having followed some of the comments, a commentary on what we are ending up with is at this link.

News (March 2004)

There was a Renesas design competition held by Circuit Cellar magazine in the USA, at the end of 2003, some of these entries may give you some insight or ideas for your own projects. PC Services entry for Width Measurements using Line Scan sensor and H8 micro, is in the Distinctive Merit winners list, and can be seen by visiting this link.