Spin off creation

Maspatechnologies S.L. was a Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) spin-off. Maspatechnologies targets critical real-time systems primarily in the avionics and automotive domains, but also in other related areas including space, railway, and robotics.

Maspatechnologies was founded in early 2020 by BSC researchers Jaume Abella and Francisco J. Cazorla and despite challenging times due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it has managed to ramp up its activities by securing several contracts with TIER and OEM companies in the avionics market. Moreover, Maspatechnologies started a strategic collaboration with Rapita Systems Ltd and Rapita Systems Inc to provide integrated validation services to customers. At present, the spin-off has created four jobs and it may reach six or seven employees in 2021.

Technologies

Maspatechnologies offered tools such as microbenchmark technology that allows adding of a configurable load on the desired interference channels to show the effectiveness of mitigation mechanisms, as required by CAST-32A in the avionics domain, or reaching freedom from interference as required by ISO 26262 in the automotive domain. Maspatechnologies tools have been ported to a plethora of processor families of interest for those industries including NXP's QorIQ T, P and LayerScape families, Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+, Infineon's AURIX TC27x/29x/37x/39x, Cobham Gaisler's LEON3/4/5, Intel's and AMD's x86 processors, Arm-based devices, NVIDIA GPUs, and some Texas Instruments' devices.

In addition, Maspatechnologies offered hardware consultancy services to support its customers in the avionics and automotive domains in the analysis and certification of multicore-based time-critical embedded systems, providing continuous support from planning to validation and verification, to fulfill the domain-specific regulations and practice.

Maspatechnologies employees had decades of experience in computer architecture, performance analysis and optimization, hardware design, real-time operating systems and low-level hardware development and tuning (e.g. assembly code). Value is added to that expertise by the team's additional experience in functional safety for avionics, automotive and space systems, software certification processes, timing analysis, and measurement protocols (including observability and controllability aspects).

Maspatechnologies offered highly-specialized hardware consultancy services and software analysis to assist industry by tackling all timing aspects of multicores and accelerators for their adoption in safety-related systems.

Multicore certification: A success story

In 2022, Maspatechnologies helped Airbus pass multicore certification on an NXP T2080 quad-core processor. More information More information here:

Acquisition by DANLAW Inc

In November 2022 Maspatechnologies SL was sold to Danlaw Inc, a global leader in connected car and automotive electronics. Maspatechnologies became the first spin-off sold by BSC. More information here: