META
Abstract
The goal of the META program was to develop novel design flows, tools, and processes to enable a significant improvement in the ability to design complex defense systems that could be verified by virtual testing. The program sought to develop a design representation from which system designs can quickly be assembled and their correctness verified with a high degree of certainty. Such a "fab-less" design approach was complemented by a foundry-style manufacturing capability, consisting of a factory capable of rapid reconfiguration between a large number of products and product variants through bitstream re-programmability, with minimal or no resultant learning curve effects. Together, the fab-less design and foundry-style manufacturing capability was anticipated to yield substantial---by a factor of five ---compression in the time to develop and field complex defense and aerospace systems.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2016
- Source ID
- b79ade3b88fdc7b2ba6bf644d78569cc