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VPT --- An Intellectual Property Company
Long lifetimes of defense electronics systems, often stretching beyond thirty years, make it inevitable that
most electronic components become obsolete - be they processors or interconnect or their underlying technology.
Our efforts are driven by our customers' requirements to be able to proactively maintain and upgrade their
multi-billion dollar defense assets (e.g., US Air Force's 6000+ aircraft) on the field and at the depot, at a high level of mission readiness and
availability, without these goals being compromised by electronics parts obsolescence, supply chain component shortages, or
obsolete technology.
[Reference: National Academy Press, 2001, "Aging Avionics in Military Aircraft".]
Two Business Areas - Building the SmartSupplyChainTM
In the past seven years VP Technologies, Inc. (VPT)
has developed proprietary and advanced technologies that form the foundation of its offerings in two key business areas ---
legacy VLSI processor emulations and embedded system retargeting.
In the first, we
license emulations (i.e., "drop-in" identical replacements) of obsolete or legacy VLSI processors of complexity ranging from several thousand to
several million gates, mitigating the effect of parts shortage or obsolescence. In the second, we retarget, for defense prime customers, existing
and legacy electronics systems to newer platforms, without legacy software redesign, through the use of advanced
VHDL-based virtual prototyping technologies.
Our intellectual property (IP) encompasses the problems of legacy design extraction, legacy design analysis,
compiler efficiency and code generation,
VLSI processor and board emulations, ASIC/FPGA synthesis, SmartSupplyChainTM technologies, system-level virtual prototyping & test, and rapid technology insertion.
We have directed multi-million dollar internal research & development (R&D) efforts
to help us understand these problems better, and thus be able to offer comprehensive, timely, and cost-effective solutions to our customers.
Our work for customers from the US Air Force,
US Navy, and Lockheed Martin has ensured that our capabilities and product offerings are synchronized with the current
and future needs of the defense market.
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History
VPT (founded in 1995) is a privately-held Georgia Advanced Technology
Development Center (ATDC)
Company, based in Atlanta, USA, incubated to commercialize technology developed as part of
DARPA's 250M$ RASSP program (1993-1998), through licensing arrangements with Georgia Tech.
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Management Team
Dr. V. Madisetti, Chairman & Founder
Dr. V. K. Madisetti,
our founder & chairman,
an internationally recognized authority on embedded system
design and telecommunications technology, plays key roles in several
industry-wide system-level design initiatives including the US Air Force
EPOI (Electronic Parts Obsolescence Initiative), Lockheed Martin's Parts
Obsolescence Management Technologies (POMT) Steering Committee, the
FreeHDL initiative, DARPA/TriService RASSP and VSIP projects, Georgia's
Yamacraw mission, and the EDA Industry Council/VI SLDL (System-Level
Description Language) project. Dr. Madisetti is technical director and
co-author on Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)'s RASSP
project that created the IEEE Standards Press CDROM, Electronic Systems
Design Methodologies and Interactive Tutorial.
Dr. Madisetti, earned his Ph.D from University of California, Berkeley, and is also a full professor of electrical and computer engineering at Georgia Tech. He authored or co-authored several textbooks in the area of VLSI
processors, DSP and VHDL-based design. Dr. Madisetti received the IEEE Ira Baker Best Paper Prize (1989), IBM Faculty Development Award (1990), VHDL International Best Ph.D Dissertation Advisor Award (1997), and the Georgia Tech Outstanding Doctoral Advisor Award (2001).
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Our personnel, a high proportion with PhDs and distinguished technical track records,
are great engineers who excel in surmounting challenges
that require
a combination of expertise, creativity and determination,
and are motivated by a mission to create a company that rewards achievement, while maintaining a flexible work regimen. We are
selective in who we recruit, and in who we retain, to help us and our customers reach success.
Thanks for visiting our site, and please do contact us for additional
information (Email: info@vptinc.com).
- Some
of our recent publications:
Reengineering
Digital Systems (IEEE Design & Test of Computers, 1999)(IEEE login required) pdf
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Vijay K. Madisetti
Virtual Prototyping of COTS-Based Systems, Original Version 1995, Updated 2002.
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Vijay K. Madisetti
Advances
in Rapid Prototyping of Digital Systems (IEEE Design & Test of Computers, 1996)(IEEE login
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Vijay K. Madisetti and
Mark A. Richards
Rapid
Digital System Prototyping: Current Practice, Future Challenges (IEEE Design & Test of Computers, 1995) (IEEE
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Vijay K. Madisetti
VHDL:
Electronic Systems Design Methodologies and Interactive Tutorial (by Madisetti, et al, IEEE Standards Press, 1999) html
Please also check our Case Studies Section (Opens new browser window).
Note: Please email info@vptinc.com with your full address
for hard copies of the papers.
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