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We describe in this document a common model of configuration management and authorization management that may be adopted by an integrated product development environment. We have specified a common minimal set of mechanisms that need to be provided by the tools to support the proposed configuration and authorization models. An important criterion we CM and AM models have been implemented as part of the design environment developed for the Rapid Prototyping of Application-Specific Signal Processors (RASSP) program.
The Rapid Prototyping of Application-Specific Signal Processors (RASSP) is a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)/Tri-Service program aimed at dramatically improving the process of design, manufacture, test and procurement of digital signal processors. The RASSP program will deliver an integrated system called the RASSP system, which integrates the CAD tools used in the RASSP design process under a framework referred to as the enterprise framework. An enterprise framework provides the facilities and services necessary to integrate the automated processes of an enterprise. In the RASSP system the enterprise framework provides support for workflow management, design data management and reuse data management. The workflow management subsystem of the RASSP enterprise system enables a RASSP system administrator to model and enforce a particular design methodology for a project. The data management subsystem of the enterprise framework provides facilities for configuration managing, and controlling access to design data files that may reside at various sites in a computer network. The reuse data management subsystem provides facilities for cataloging, classifying and storing reusable design components; as well as mechanisms for searching for reusable components.
In the next section we present the RASSP CM model, and in section 3 we present the RASSP AM model. In section 4 we present a pilot implementation of the models, and the lessons learned from the implementation. The application of the CM and AM tools in a real world design project is the subject of section 5. In section 6 we compare the RASSP CM and AM facilities with an out-of-the-box product data management system.
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