The RASSP Digest - Vol. 2, 3nd. Qtr. 1995

RASSP at 24 Months

by Vijay K. Madisetti & Anthony J. Gadient

We welcome the readers to this special issue of The RASSP Digest that is devoted entirely to the achievements and accomplishments of the RASSP primes as documented in the Second Annual RASSP Conference, held between July 24-27, 1995 in Crystal City, Virginia. RASSP is now 24 months old with a wide variety of accomplishments to date. The demonstrations and presentations at the RASSP conference have clearly shown that 4X is within reach, commercialization of RASSP technological breakthroughs is occuring, and that users, vendors, and suppliers are accepting executable specifications, virtual prototyping, VHDL-based system design automation, reuse libraries, enterprise integration and workflow systems, and virtual corporations as ideas that are no longer constrained to the drawing board, but whose day has come. As RASSP enters its third year, the RASSP Educator and Facilitator (RASSP E&F) program has offered short courses and numerous management tutorials to a variety of industrial organizations.

As the transition phase of the RASSP E&F program ramps up, the RASSP E&F team will help to ensure the successful transfer of the RASSP technology by continuing to facilitate the successful progression of organizations through a four phased technology transfer process of (1) developing awareness of the RASSP technology, (2) generating understanding of the benefits of the RASSP technology, (3) working with the RASSP primes to support the use of RASSP technology on selected pilot programs, and (4) obtaining organizational commitment to RASSP by incorporating the RASSP methodology and technology into daily business practice as the ultimate goal.

This special issue of the Digest indicates that the time is right for phase (3). As the old adage goes, the "proof of the pudding is in the eating." Bon appetit, for there is a lot to Digest in this issue.


Vijay K. Madisetti, School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Atlanta, GA 30332-0250
vkm@ee.gatech.edu
Dr. Anthony J. Gadient, SCRA, 5300 International Blvd., N. Charleston, SC 29418
gadient@scra.org

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