For twenty-one years, Cyclone Microsystems has been a leading designer and manufacturer of high-performance Intelligent I/O Controllers for embedded and real-time systems. Cyclone's products effectively manage high-speed real-time data flows and I/O protocol processing, allowing the system's host processor to focus on primary application tasks.

With many types of embedded systems experiencing the impact of escalating LAN and WAN data flows, Cyclone's products are used in many industrial sectors, including telecommunications, video-on-demand, medical imaging, broadband networking, security, and industrial process control.

Products
Cyclone Microsystems builds 70 different products within four product categories; PCI Express Expansion Systems, CompactPCI and PCI Express Intelligent I/O Controllers, Customer-Specific Products, and Embedded Systems. All products focus on enabling the development and manufacture of complex embedded systems.

Customers
Cyclone products are deployed in a wide range of industrial applications, customer sizes, and needs. Applications range from SS7 gateways for intelligent telephone networks; data acquisition in medical imaging, bomb/contraband detection, and seismic logging systems; and protocol processing and data management in video-on-demand, satellite communication, and large format printing equipment. Customer accounts are both U.S. and international and range from IBM, Intel, AT&T, Nokia, Phillips Medical, Raytheon, Telcordia, and Schlumberger to small and mid-size equipment developers.

Engineering
Cyclone maintains a sharp focus on our four technical core competencies: industrial bus architectures, high-speed I/O microprocessors, I/O interfaces and real-time operating systems. We continually integrate advances from all four areas into new product combinations. Also, we internally develop Board Support Packages and provide development support for Wind River's VxWorks and Linux. This internal expertise allows our hardware and software engineering groups to frequently provide high-level architectural assistance. This assistance allows our customers to effectively leverage our expertise and products toward quickly developing complex systems.

While many customers purchase our standard products, high volume users frequently benefit from our ability to rapidly optimize our standard products for their unique application. For these customers, we frequently become their I/O board group tasked with architectural development, product definition, and hardware and firmware development.

Production
System designers rely on strategic partnerships to get high-performance products to market quickly. Cyclone understands that our products are a component of large, complex systems. Meeting and exceeding customer product delivery expectations is as important as the initial product trial. Consequently, Cyclone operates a closely controlled manufacturing process that insures on-time delivery of quality products. We utilize local assembly subcontractors to assemble the PCBs and thoroughly test and configure all products on our production floor.

In addition to board level products, Cyclone also produces customer-specific systems incorporating our products complete with NEBS level 3 and international regulatory certifications, system documentation, rapid delivery programs, advanced replacement sparing support, and sustaining lifecycle support.

Financial
Since our start in 1986, Cyclone has remained a privately held company, majority owned by Cyclone's management and founders. The company has been consistently profitable for the past sixteen years and has appropriate working capital and an established commercial line-of-credit to support large production growth opportunities. The combination of the two permits us to focus our attention on developing customer relationships and productizing new technology to intersect with our customer's future system challenges.