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End of Early Registration and Program Announcement


6th MAPLD International Conference


Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade
Center
Washington, D.C.
9-11 September 2003


About 120 papers on programmable devices and technologies
and
related aspects of digital engineering will be presented at
the 6th Military and Aerospace Programmable Logic Devices
(MAPLD) International Conference. Early registration closes
Friday, August 8, 2003.


This year, there will be special emphasis on the following
themes:


• Reliability of Hardware and Designs; Fault Tolerance
• Reconfigurable/Adaptive Computing Systems
• Long-term (> 15 years) Space Missions
• Hardware and Software: The Line is Blurring
• Radiation Hardening by Design
• Digital Signal Processing with Programmable Devices
• Design Security
• "War Stories" and Lessons Learned


CONFERENCE HOME PAGE - http://klabs.org/mapld03 contains
registration information, paper titles, authors, and
abstracts,
as well as biographies of all invited speakers and Panel
Session
members. Late abstract submissions will be accepted for the
Poster Session.


Invited Speakers Include (more to be announced):


Theron M. Bradley Jr. Greg Hinckley
Chief Engineer, NASA President, Mentor Graphics
"Welcome and Opening Remarks" "Mil/Aero and PLD's: A
CEO's View"


SEMINARS - Two seminars will be presented:
"Advanced Design: Digital Signal Processing, Programmable
Device
Architecture, and Military/Aerospace Applications" and
"Reconfigurable Computing: FPGA-Based, General Purpose, High
Performance Systems."


PANEL SESSION: We will have leading engineers and managers
on our
panel for a spirited "discussion." One question left open
from the
2002 panel on "Why Is Mars So Hard?" that will be discussed
at the
2003 panel is ...


"Why Is Software So Hard?"
A Discussion of the Technical, Programmatic, and
Political Factors That Have Lead To Failures Over
the
Last 40 Years and Its Impact for Future Systems


Introduction:
James Tomayko Carnegie Mellon University
Paul Cerruzi National Air and Space Museum


Opening Case Studies:
Tony Spear, JPL Magellan and Mars Pathfinder


John P. Dimtroff Aircraft Certification Engineer,
FAA
Jack Garman Lockheed-Martin (NASA, retired)
Nancy Leveson Prof. of Aeronautics and
Astronautics, MIT
Jim Lewis SynthWorks Design Inc.
Fred Martin Averstar/Intermetrics
Steven S. Scott Chief Engineer, Goddard Space
Flight Center
Kevin Tones NASA Johnson Space Center


TECHNICAL SESSIONS:


• Applications: Military and Aerospace
• Systems and Design Tools
• Radiation and Mitigation Techniques
• Processors: General Purpose and Arithmetic
• Reconfigurable Computing, Evolvable Hardware, and
Security
• Birds of a Feather: Reconfigurable Computing
• Birds of a Feather: Mitigation Methods for
Reprogrammable
Logic in the Space Radiation
Environment
• Poster Session



The 6th MAPLD International Conference is hosted by the AIAA
and the
NASA Office of Logic Design.


INDUSTRIAL and GOVERNMENT EXHIBIT RESERVATIONS


AccelChip ACT/CoreTech Actel
Aeroflex UTMC AIAA AITech
Aldec Altera Andraka
Group
Annapolis Micro AstroExpo.com BAE Systems
Celoxica Condor Engineering DSP
Architectures
Elanix Global Velocity Hier Design
IEEE Lattice Semiconductor Mathstar
Mentor Graphics Mission Research Nallatech
Northrop Grumman Quickflex Quicksilver
Tech.
Seakr Space Micro Synthworks
Design
Tensilica Xilinx
NASA Office of Logic Design


For more information, please visit http://klabs.org/mapld03
or contact:


Richard Katz - Conference Chair NASA Goddard Space
Flight Center
[email protected] Tel: (301) 286-9705