Cryogenic Control Systems, Inc.

Cryogenic Control Systems, Inc. (Cryo-con) is a manufacturer of electronic equipment for both laboratory and industrial process control applications. Our mission is to provide the cryogenic industry with high quality, innovative and technically superior instrumentation.

Cryo-con's core technical strength is the development and manufacture of cryogenic instrumentation. This often requires the design of unusual circuits that work with the exotic sensors found in some cryogenic systems. However, much more importantly, our products must be made to operate in extremely low noise environments without corrupting any measure of overall system performance.

Cryogenic techniques are frequently used to lower electrical noise in environments where extreme sensitivity is required. If system instrumentation couples electrical noise into such an environment, even at an extremely low level, measurement data can easily be corrupted or destroyed. Electronics designed primarily for room-temperature applications are frequently unsuitable for cryogenic use.

Every Cryo-con product is designed for extremely low noise cryogenic environments. Therefore, the minimization and management of electrical noise is a key element of our design methodology. This requires extensive experience in the use of modern components that must be applied with tested and proven noise reduction techniques.

Cryo-con’s development staff has worked together as a team for over 15 years. Our experience with dilution refrigerators and many-channel SQUID systems is leveraged into our products; which we believe are the lowest noise instruments on the market today.

Digital Signal Processing (DSP) is used to significantly improve performance in a wide range of applications. In Cryo-con’s products, DSP is used to improve measurement accuracy and control stability well beyond limits imposed by electronic hardware. Examples include the signal decimation, lock-in detection and Cubic Spline algorithms used in temperature measurement as well as the signal dithering and enhanced PID used in our control loops.

DSP is used to provide our instruments with 'simply smarter' operation including Adaptive Cryocooler Signature Subtraction and Linear-Mean-Squared based autotuning.

Cryo-con's modern and efficient business model ensures that we will be a sustained, reliable and quality supplier to our growing customer base.

State of the art Computer Aided Design (CAD) software is used extensively throughout design, development and manufacturing.

CAD systems directly generate all tooling required for the fabrication and assembly of our circuit boards. Surface mounted electronic components are used so that computer-vision based machines can assemble these circuit boards automatically, thus ensuring high accuracy.

CAD systems are also interfaced directly to our Material Resource Planning software. This integrates material requirements with sales forecasts in order to ensure that we can reliably ship products against customer requirements.

Testing and calibration functions are highly automated to ensure product quality. Each instrument is subjected to Burn-In under full operating conditions. Final testing is computerized and uses the instrument's internal loop-back circuits to ensure 100% coverage of all circuit paths.

Calibration is performed using NIST traceable standards. A complete calibration report and a certificate of traceability are shipped with each instrument.

Cryo-con's state of the art designs and sophisticated computerized operational systems result in cost-effective, high quality products.