Pre-calibrated and fully integrated test frameworks ready for rapid deployment across the Barcelona Metropolitan Area, Martorell automotive corridor, and 22@ Innovation District.
Catalonia has emerged as Southern Europe’s foremost industrial automation, telecommunications, and automotive engineering nexus. The convergence of R&D centres in Barcelona demands ultra-scalable modular test hardware.
Anchored by the Martorell and Zona Franca manufacturing corridors, Barcelona’s automotive supply chain is aggressively transitioning toward software-defined electric vehicles (EV). High-channel AXIe chassis and digitizers are critical for real-time battery management system (BMS) validation, ECU firmware profiling, and high-voltage inverter switching analysis.
As the enduring home of Mobile World Congress (MWC) and Europe's prominent telecommunications research hubs (such as CTTC), Barcelona houses massive RF characterisation labs. These facilities require PCIe-over-AXIe backplane throughputs capable of handling multithreaded 400G/800G optical coherent signals and non-terrestrial network (NTN) phased-array tests.
The ALBA Synchrotron facility in Cerdanyola del Vallès and adjacent advanced materials institutes consistently procure modular instrumentation with sub-picosecond timing synchronization. AXIe's open architecture provides the extreme channel density and multi-gigahertz digitizing bandwidth required by experimental beamline diagnostics.
AXIe (AdvancedTCA Extensions for Instrumentation and Test) creates a modern standard for high-performance modular systems, bridging benchtop power with PXIe scalability.
Traditional PXIe architectures are structurally constrained to modest power consumption per slot, creating severe thermal bottlenecks when driving gigasample digitizers or high-power arbitrary waveform generators. AXIe's wider vertical board pitch delivers up to 200W+ per slot alongside dedicated liquid-cooling and laminar forced-air pathways, preventing clock drift and maintaining thermal equilibrium during 24/7 automated qualification runs.
With an expansive PCB area over triple the size of standard PXIe boards, AXIe modules accommodate sophisticated RF shielding, multi-stage low-noise analog signal conditioning, and localized FPGA coprocessors (Xilinx UltraScale+ / Intel Agilex). This spatial advantage avoids electromagnetic interference between digital processing buses and sensitive high-frequency analog input matrices.
Precision instrumentation shipments to Spain are backed by comprehensive metrology certifications, robust packaging, and streamlined customs handling.
Every modular instrument, chassis, and calibrator exported by Machine-Win complies with EU Low Voltage Directive (LVD) 2014/35/EU, Electromagnetic Compatibility Directive (EMC) 2014/30/EU, and RoHS directives, ensuring complete regulatory compliance across all Spanish manufacturing plants.
Upon request, instrumentation is shipped with multi-point calibration reports traceable to international metrology institutes (NIM, NIST, or equivalent European bodies). Barcelona laboratories receive complete uncertainty analyses matching strict ISO/IEC 17025 operating environments.
Our logistics network manages direct air-cargo lanes linking Hong Kong and Shenzhen hubs to Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN). Multi-layered shock-absorbing wooden flight cases ensure sensitive optical and RF components maintain strict structural alignment throughout transit.
Emerging standards in artificial intelligence interconnects, quantum processing, and next-generation radar systems require modular architectures to scale rapidly beyond classic sub-6 GHz bandwidths.
The transition toward PCIe Gen 4 and Gen 5 fabric over the AXIe backplane increases slot bandwidth to 32 GB/s per lane, eliminating memory offload bottlenecks in multi-channel beamforming and coherent LIDAR receiver arrays. As Barcelona-based design hubs accelerate automotive radar characterisation up to 77-81 GHz, direct-to-memory streaming guarantees zero packet drop during intensive digital signal acquisition.
Catalonia's expanding quantum computing initiatives require precise microwave signal synthesis at cryogenic interfaces. AXIe's deterministic inter-slot trigger lines deliver sub-nanosecond skew matching across hundreds of arbitrary waveform channels, providing the precise phase control required to execute error-mitigated qubit gate operations.
Addressing engineering specifications, global logistics, hardware authentication, and software integration for cross-border test equipment sourcing.
Comprehensive high-performance test equipment portfolio exported directly to support commercial research, aerospace maintenance, and high-frequency production lines in Barcelona.
