End of Early Registration and Program Announcement
6th MAPLD International ConferenceRonald 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
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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
Richard Katz - Conference Chair NASA Goddard Space Flight Center snipped-for-privacy@klabs.org Tel: (301) 286-9705