The RASSP Digest

RASSP Conference Success

The Lockheed Sanders prime contractor team provided a booth area at the conference. In this area, a RASSP videotape was continuously run providing an introduction to the Lockheed Sanders team and its approach to RASSP. Also provided in the booth area for Sanders was a set of demonstrations illustrating technologies and methodologies being developed and employed by that team to address the RASSP goals of 4X improvements in the areas of cost, time, and quality. These demonstrations included:

The RASSP Design Environment (RDE) Release 0.1:The product of the first year of RASSP effort, this prototype was the first of four stepping stones toward a RASSP environment and concentrated on document/data control and access and support for bug reporting.

RDE 1.0 Work Flow Manager: This demonstration illustrated many of the features of the RASSP 1.0 work flow manager scheduled for release in June '95. The work flow manager was loaded with the current RASSP process definition to illustrate the contributions of reuse and concurrent engineering to the goals of 4X.

RASSP Visionary Demonstration: This demonstration is a Macintosh based, multimedia program illustrating the "vision" of a future RASSP environment. This view was constructed by the team to help focus their own views on what a RASSP environment should provide.

RASSP Virtual Prototype: This demonstration of the Virtual Prototype was shown by members of the Demonstration Team. The VHDL demonstration showed the MCV9/ISA model executing an application program example and compared the results with a similar application program executing directly on the workstation.

Multithreading Multiprocessors Demonstration: The multithreaded, multiprocessor demonstration illustrated the use of a multi-processor workstation as a VHDL simulation accelerator. Simulation acceleration is essential as VHDL model complexity increases.

WWW Mosaic demonstration: The Lockheed Sanders RASSP team has constructed a detailed World-Wide-Web Mosaic home page providing information on the team, its organization, goals, plans, and status.

Video Teleconferencing Demonstration: The video teleconferencing demonstration illustrated the use of freeware video and screen-sharing tools used by the team in order to aid in the development of the RASSP environment itself. In this way, the Lockheed Sanders team is using components of their own RASSP environment and methodology in its own development.

• University of California, Berkeley

• MIT/Boston University

• Research Triangle Institute

• GA SEER

• Georgia Tech

• CFI (CAD Framework Initiative).

The Lockheed Sanders RASSP Team also supports an automated fax-back service at 1-800-99RASSP. This number may be used to request additional specific information through an operator. Electronic mail requests for other RASSP information can be made through rassp-info@rassp.sanders.com.

Additional information about the Lockheed Sanders RASSP Team and their plans and status can be obtained from several sources.

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