RASSP Demonstrates 4X Improvement Goals

• Cost
  • Data flow graph driven process reduces labor intensive software effort by facilitating autocoding
  • Virtual prototyping concept reduces integration and test time
• Time-to-market
  • Enables a concurrent/collaborative approach to reduce development time
  • Process supports use of COTS and design reuse
  • Command and application program autocoding reduces development time
• Quality
  • Enables early and rapid hardware/software trades to produce optimized solution
  • Virtual prototyping and performance modeling enables early risk retirement and reduces rework

• Cost
  • Reuse library encapsulations support low cost, rapid technology upgrades for life-cycle cost reduction
  • Supports developoment of architectures with wide range of performance requirements
• Time-to-market
  • Allows use of emering, state-of-the-art commercial technology
  • Uses standards based node-level and network-level interfaces for plug and play capability
• Quality
  • Uses validated hardware and software libraries
  • Facilitiates continuous process improvement

• Cost
  • Controls program execution and tracking through workflow execution and management of the design processes
  • Enables reuse of design data through product data management (PDM) and object-oriented search engine
• Time-to-market
  • PDM enables design reuse
  • Search engine locates reusable designs and components
  • Electronic manufacturing interfaces allows early involvement to reduce redesign
• Quality
  • Provides mechanism for continuous process improvement through process modeling and control, automated metrics collection, and lessons learned
  • Distributed PDM supporting electronic collaboration and data sharing