Program Announcement and Registration Open
6th MAPLD International ConferenceRonald Reagan Building and International Trade Center Washington, D.C. 9-11 September 2003
Over 110 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.
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
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Invited Speakers Include (more to be announced):
Theron M. Bradley Jr. Greg Hinckley Chief Engineer, NASA President, Mentor Graphics Corporation "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 Professor 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 ? Poster Session
The 6th MAPLD International Conference is hosted by the AIAA and the NASA Office of Logic Design.
INDUSTRIAL and GOVERNMENT EXHIBIT RESERVATIONS
Actel Aeroflex UTMC AIAA Aldec Altera Andraka Consulting Annapolis Micro AstroExpo.com BAE Systems Condor Engineering DSP Architectures IEEE Lattice Semiconductor Mentor Graphics Nallatech Northrop Grumman Quickflex Seakr Space Micro Synplicity Synthworks Design Xilinx NASA Office of Logic Design
For more information, please visit
Richard Katz - Conference Chair NASA Goddard Space Flight Center snipped-for-privacy@klabs.org Tel: (301) 286-9705