The RASSP Program: Origin, Concepts, and Status: An Introduction to the Issue
Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems - Special issue on the rapid prototyping of application specific signal processors (RASSP) program
Model-Year Architectures for Rapid Prototyping
Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems - Special issue on the rapid prototyping of application specific signal processors (RASSP) program
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
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ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)
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The goal of the DARPA/Tri-Service-sponsored Rapid Prototyping ofApplication-Specific Signal Processors (RASSP) program is to reduce the costand time to develop and manufacture signal processors by at least a factor offour. Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories‘ (ATL) approach toreaching this goal is based on three thrusts: methodology, model-yeararchitecture, and infrastructure (enterprise). The Advanced TechnologyLaboratories‘ RASSP team—composed of an alliance of companies—implementedthe first baseline RASSP system, which advances today‘s state-of-the-art by afactor of 2X. The Advanced Technology Laboratories‘ RASSP team used themethodology and tools to demonstrate cost and design-cycle improvements on thebenchmark virtual proto-type, and developed a hardware/software system thatdemonstrated first-pass success. Additional developments underway will providefurther benefits and will demonstrate 4X improvements in cost and time tomarket. This paper updates the team‘s progress halfway through the program,and highlights the impact of using the RASSP concepts on the design of a SARprocessor, a Navy standard processor upgrade, and a CNI application.