A Technical Rationale for RASSP Educational Activities

This article describes, the technical rationale behind the RASSP Education & Facilitation program. In this ground-breaking effort, the Department of Defense?s Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has explicitly funded technology transfer from its Rapid Prototyping of Application-Specific Signal Processors (RASSP) program to the university and industrial communities. Rather than follow the traditional passive approaches (e.g., licenses, papers, patents) for technology transfer from DoD programs to the industry and the universities, it was felt that an active contracted effort would meet the objectives of RASSP better and in a more timely manner.