Announcements and Call For Papers 2002 MAPLD International Conference Please see the Call for Papers for the 2002 MAPLD International Conference which follows these announcements. . Electronic Registration is now open. https://klabs.org/richcontent/MAPLDCon02/Reg/Registration.html . Abstracts are due May 28, 2002. Late abstracts will be accepted for the Poster Session. . Apollo 16 Moon Rock display. We'll take your picture with it. http://klabs.org/richcontent/MAPLDCon02/exhibits/nasa_exhibits.htm . The CD-ROM Proceedings for the 2000 and 2001 MAPLD International Conferences have shipped. . Invited Speakers Welcome: Dr. J. Sommerer Director, Research and Technology Development, JHU/APL Keynote: General Paul J. Kern, US Army History: Dr. Roger D. Launius, Chief Historian, NASA Allan McDonald, Thiokol Propulsion "Space Systems Engineering: Lessons Learned" Paul G. Cheng, The Aerospace Corporation "Recovery from the Mars Surveyor '98 Failures: Lessons Learned and Applied", Ed Euler and Steven Jolly Lockheed Martin Astronautics Operations AIAA Speaker: Dr. Nancy Leveson, MIT Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics http://klabs.org/richcontent/MAPLDCon02/Invited/index.htm . Design Seminars (Seperate Registration) Logic Design: Clocking, Timing Analysis, Finite State Machines, and Verification Programmable Logic in the Radiation Environment . International guests and presenters should request their visas early. . We will continue our "Birds-of-a-Feather Session" on reconfigurable computing. . As a courtesy, we are offering to help you get NASA souvenirs this year. You can order on-line and your items will be waiting for you at check-in. This will save you traveling time and we don't know what will and will not be open next September. https://klabs.org/richcontent/MAPLDCon02/Souvenir/souvenir.html . Hotel, Transportation, and Directions are available on the Conference home page. http://klabs.org/richcontent/MAPLDCon02/MAPLDCon02.html _________________________________________________________________________ Call for Papers 2002 MAPLD International Conference Kossiakoff Conference Center The Johns Hopkins University - Applied Physics Laboratory 11100 Johns Hopkins Road Laurel, Maryland 20723-6099 September 10-12, 2002 Abstracts are now being solicited for the 5th annual Military and Aerospace Programmable Logic Devices (MAPLD) International Conference. Programmable devices and technologies, as well as digital engineering and related fields, will comprise the major emphasis of this Conference geared towards military and aerospace applications. The Technical Program will consist of oral and poster technical presentations and Industrial and Government Exhibits. We are planning an exciting program with presentations by Government, industry, academia, and consultants, including talks by select Invited Speakers. Select papers will be published in the AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. This conference is open to US and foreign participation and is unclassified. For conference information, please see the http://klabs.org or the conference www home page at: http://klabs.org/richcontent/MAPLDCon02/MAPLDCon02.html We are especially interested in papers emphasizing design and analysis techniques with respect to reliability and fault tolerance, high- performance, and low power for digital circuits. Papers on state-of-the -art military and aerospace applications and -lessons learned- are also strongly encouraged. As in past years, we expect a large number of papers on programmable logic, digital engineering, and components. Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions: For the first time, at 2001 MAPLD International Conference, a "birds-of-a-feather" session on reconfigurable computing was held. The BOF sessions will continue as a MAPLD feature, and we are soliciting proposals for such sessions. If you would like to lead a session, please submit your idea with session title, a brief description, and contact information to mapld2002@klabs.org Seminars and Tutorials will be again be offered (with a separate registration). Seminars and tutorials will be on September 9th, 2002. Logic Design: Clocking, Timing Analysis, Finite State Machines, and Verification Programmable Logic in the Radiation Environment Conference topics include (but are not limited to) the following: Design and Analysis CPU Logic Low-Power Techniques High-Speed Techniques Applications Military (Ground, airborne, artillery, etc.) Spaceborne Arithmetic and Signal Processing Encryption Systems Devices Advanced Devices, Technologies, and Software and Their Impact on Critical System Reliability Programmable Technologies and State-of-the-Art Devices and Programmable Elements Device Architecture Systems and Software System-on-Chip Software Tools for Design/Analysis - HDLs, Synthesis, Design Entry Systems Translation from High Level Languages Intellectual Property Reliability Experience and "Lessons Learned" from Mission Experience Radiation Effects, Device Reliability and Element Characteristics Fault Tolerance Use of COTS Devices in the Military and Spaceflight Environment Testing and Analysis Techniques Advanced Packaging including Known-Good-Die, MCMs, and chip-scale packaging. Adaptive Computing Systems Evolvable Hardware Reconfigurable Computing The conference is sponsored by: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center JHU/Applied Physics Laboratory National Security Agency Office of Logic Design Electronics Radiation Characterization Project Digital Engineering Institute/Office of Logic Design Military & Aerospace Programmable Logic Users Group American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics IEEE Aerospace & Electronic Systems Society (AESS) Air Force Research Laboratory For more conference information, please see the MAPLD pages on http://klabs.org or contact: Richard Katz - Conference Chair NASA Goddard Space Flight Center mapld2002@klabs.org Tel: (301) 286-9705 Alan W. Hunsberger - Conference Co-Chair National Security Agency awhunsb@afterlife.ncsc.mil Tel: (301) 688-0692 Ann Darrin - Conference Co-Chair Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory ann.darrin@jhuapl.edu Tel: (240) 228-4952 Tanya Vladimirova - Conference Co-Chair for the AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. University of Surrey T.Vladimirova@ee.surrey.ac.uk +44(0)1483 879137 Conference Co-Chair, European Liaison Hans Tiggeler hans@klabs.org Abstracts should be approximately 2 pages long. Please send abstracts to mapld2002@klabs.org. Your abstract must be in an attached file, named using this format: LastName_A.ext - where last name is the name of the first author - e.g., Katz_A.txt. Please include first author information for point of contact (name, affiliation, phone number, and e-mail address). All abstracts must be unclassified. Abstracts are due May 28th, 2002. Late papers will be accepted for the Poster Session only. The program will be announced no later than July 3, 2002. Industrial exhibit reservations should be sent to mapld2002@klabs.org and should include company name and contact information (phone and email). Please see http://klabs.org/richcontent/MAPLDCon02/Industrial_Exhibit_Request.htm for additional information.