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We manufacture quadrupole mass spectrometer (AddMS 4500). We provide hardware and software upgrade (MStation) for Agilent MSD. We offer consulting in the field of electronic/hardware/physics for the development of lab equipments. Our business model is simple: provide innovative, reliable and, inexpensive instrumentation.

 

R&D Team

Christian Fiot, Hard & Soft Designer. (Graduated from:  Ecole AOIP 1983)
Mr. Fiot currently manages the operation at ASk. He has been designing electronic hardware, firmware and software for the past 18 years. he began his career with Nermag, a manufacturer of analytical instruments, in France. He spent 8 years in the R&D department at Nermag. He worked on the development of a triple quad mass spectrometer and a full computer control MS projects. In 1992 Mr. Fiot started Mass Evolution in the U.S. with 2 other partners. He spent 5 years developing upgrades for the installed based of Nermag, Finnigan and HP mass spectrometers. In 1997, Mr. Fiot sold his share of Mass Evolution and started Acquisition Solutions k.

Dr. Robert Evrard, Technology consultant
Dr. Robert Evrard is a renowned ion physicist and has been working in the scientific instrumentation industry for over 25 years. He developed mass spectrometers for Alcatel, Nermag, Edwards ... His field of specialization is sample ionization and detection. The AddMS instrument is his latest invention.

 

Past realizations

IR 500 /  IR 530
Contracted by: Buck Scientific
Job Performed: Hardware and Firmware design 2006-2007.

Thermal Analyzer, POPI, KINETIC, RockEval, Thermex
Contracted by: Humble instruments, Inc - (HISI)
Job Performed: Hardware and software design 2001-2006.

QS300 for RGA
Contracted by: Alpha Mos
Job Performed: Hardware and driver design 1998.
Main features:

bulletPC platform
bulletHardware compatible with : Microvision from SPECTRA

 

Acquisition system for the VG ZAB magnetic mass spectrometer
Contracted by: University
Job performed: Hardware and software design 1997.
Main features:

 

bulletPC platform with Windows as user interface
bulletWindows crash proof
bulletSampling rate: 200 KHz
bulletNo limit ( but the file capacity) to the number of measure per scan
bulletFile format capacity: 500 Mbytes


Acquisition system for quadrupole mass spectrometer
Job Performed: Hardware and software design 1993-1997.
Main features:

bulletPC platform
bulletSampling rate: 30 KHz
bulletDynamic 32000


Tuning program and Control & Surveillance software of the AUTOMASS serie 1
Job Performed: Software design 1991-1992.
Main features:

bulletPC platform with DOS. 80C552 controller board with a FORTH nucleus
bulletWin style multi-task graphic tool box
bulletScope-like display ( more than 15 pictures per second )


 

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