Oxford Instruments have designed hardware for the INCA platform which combines excellence in both detector and pulse processor performance. Hardware designed specifically to give the high quality, stable output required for accurate, automatic peak identification, and standardless, quantitative analysis over a range of useful count rates. Our EDS detectors, the INCAx-stream digital pulse processor and the INCAEnergy EDS software combine in total harmony to make INCA a complete system that works accurately and productively.