FPA Plan

This document, dated March 28, 1983, is a memorandum from Don Hooper proposing an organizational strategy for the 4050 Floating Point Accelerator (FPA) design project. It advocates for detailed project planning to ensure accountability and clarity in team responsibilities. The proposal includes a breakdown of required resources, such as hardware designers, simulation programmers, and diagnostic test programmers. The document also provides a high-level flowchart of the 4050 FPA process, covering architectural definition, simulation, behavioral modeling, logical partitioning, gate-level design, and diagnostic testing. It includes sample task block formats and detailed task lists to track progress.