About Us

Overview

Since 1992 Catalyst products have served a wide range of technology developers throughout the world, ranging from emerging high technology companies, to the world’s largest computer hardware and software manufacturers. Catalyst protocol test and validation solutions serve companies developing products for Serial ATA (SATA), Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), PCI Express, Universal Serial Bus (USB), PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect), Wireless USB, and PCI-X can benefit from Catalyst products. Potential users of our tools include software developers, computer manufacturers, peripheral manufacturers, value-added resellers, system integrators, storage product developers, networking companies, and even component manufacturers such as semi-conductor companies. Catalyst’s mission is to help produce better, more reliable products, and reduce their time to market. Catalyst is highly committed to supporting our customer’s efforts to improve the quality of their designs, help them get products to market quickly, and to comply with all industry standards.

Customers

End users of Catalyst products include hardware and software engineers, technicians, manufacturing engineers, test engineers or anyone concerned with product development, troubleshooting, verification and standards compliance. Catalyst's large and diverse customer base includes leaders in the computer, computer peripheral, storage, test equipment, defense, and communication industries.

Market Overview

The expanding range of computer technologies has produced many new specifications for computer bus applications. Each is designed to serve a specific need more efficiently than its predecessors and presents a unique set of development and production challenges. For designers trying to produce successful products, the unique nature of each bus means that general-purpose instrumentation such as logic analyzers may not be able to effectively deal with the changing analytical requirements of each new bus design.

An increasing variety of complicated testing requirements is evident in traditional parallel and serial buses architectures. This increased complexity is compounded in wireless technologies and gigabit-speed communication protocols. This has created a demand for protocol and architecture-specific instruments, which provide a wide range of dedicated analysis capabilities for one or more bus or protocol architecture. These requirements have created a market for dedicated, bus-specific instruments, which include extensive feature sets – a need that Catalyst addresses.