ExpressCard technology is emerging with faster speeds and better efficiency, connecting high-bandwidth peripherals to notebooks and other portables. The ExpressCard’s credit-card like format gives way to a smaller, faster and more desktop-friendly format. Gone are the days of laptops manufactured with PC Card slots and are swapped out with smaller, slimmer and thinner ExpressCard portals. Quatech’s ExpressCard line supersedes older technology and are engineered for new laptop models.

As the leader in PCMCIA technology with reliable Serial and Parallel PCMCIA Cards, Quatech now offers the ExpressCard Performance and Connectivity product lines to suit your mobile expansion needs. Utilizing a PCI Express-based design, the ExpressCard Performance Series directly uses the I/O space addresses and interrupts, thus more closely emulating built-in ports than via USB-based design. Because there is no USB stack for the drivers to contend with, throughput can be higher and latency will be lower.

ExpressCard advantages include:

• Designed with PCI Express (PCIe) power control and design core rather than using USB controller interfaces, Quatech's SPPXP-100 parallel ExpressCard adds one true EPP parallel port to your laptop. As the next generation of I/O expansion for notebooks, ExpressCards support PCI Express Base Specification Revision 1.1a.
• The new ExpressCard offers users an easy way to add hardware or media to existing systems. The latest technology provides desktop and mobile computer users a consistent, easy and reliable way to connect devices into their systems.
  

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