The RASSP Program: Origin, Concepts, and Status: An Introduction to the Issue

  • Authors:

  • Mark A. Richards;Anthony Gadient;Geoffrey A. Frank;Randolph Harr

  • Affiliations:

  • Georgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, GA 30332-0856;South Carolina Research Authority, 5300 International Blvd., Charleston, SC 29464;Research Triangle Institute, P.O. Box 12194, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2194;Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Electronics Technology Office, 3701 N. Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22203-1714

  • Venue:
  • Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems - Special issue on the rapid prototyping of application specific signal processors (RASSP) program
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

The Rapid Prototyping of Application Specific Signal Processors (RASSP) program is a multi-year DARPA/Tri-Service initiative intended to dramatically improve theprocess by which complex digital systems, particularly embedded digital signalprocessors, are designed, manufactured, upgraded, and supported. This paperreviews the genesis of the RASSP program, considering both the problems thatdefined the need for the program, and the historical conditions under which itbegan. The RASSP program is then presented from two viewpoints. The first isprogrammatic, covering the goals and constraints of the program, and describingthe roles of the various program participants. The second is technical,covering the major concepts upon which the developing RASSP approach to designis based and showing how the detailed technical discussions contained in theother papers in this issue of the Journal of VLSI Signal Processing relate toone another and fit into an overall development concept. The paper closes with a review of the status of the program as of this writing (Summer 1996).