DARPA bets more taxpayers $ on ... uhhh ... the future ?
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Resting on a foundation of existing research programs are newly formulated thrusts that all sum into the Electronics Research Initiative, a four-year push with anticipated annual investments in the $200 million range.
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An endpoint of the IDEA program would be the capability for a “no human in the loop,” 24-hour design framework that would enable even nonexperts to design complex electronic technologies, including mixed-signal integrated circuits, system-in-package modules with multiple integrated circuits (ICs), and printed circuit boards.
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The Domain-Specific System on a Chip (DDSoC) program of the Architectures thrust is driven by the need to rapidly develop multi-application systems through a single programmable framework. Such a framework would enable SoC designers to mix and match general purpose, special purpose (e.g., ASICs), and hardware accelerator coprocessors, as well as memory and I/O elements, into easily programmed SoCs for applications within specific technology domains. One such domain is software-defined radio, which encompasses mobile communications, satellite communications, personal area networks, all types of radar, and applications in the electronic warfare space.
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. A few hundred years later another traveler despairing as myself, may mourn the disappearance of what I may have seen, but failed to see.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)