MAPLD 2003 - 6th Military and Aerospace Programmable Logic Devices International Conference

9-11 September 2003
Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
Washington, DC

Co-hosted by AIAA and NASA Office of Logic Design

Abstract Deadline: 25 April 2003

Abstracts are being accepted for the 6th Military and Aerospace Programmable
Logic Devices (MAPLD) International Conference. Programmable devices, 
technologies, and related aspects of digital engineering will comprise the major
emphasis of this conference.

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

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

The Technical Program will consist of technical paper presentations and a 
poster session. We are planning an exciting program with several special invited
speakers, including the annual Invited History talk. Select papers will be 
published in the AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. This conference is 
open to both foreign participation and U.S. citizens and is unclassified. Authors
can obtain conference information by visiting http://klabs.org/mapld03. Papers
should be sent to, along with questions, to mapld2003@klabs.org.

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

Our distinguished panel will discuss: "Why Is Software So Hard?"

Best regards,

Richard B. Katz
NASA Office of Logic Design
Chairman, MAPLD International Conference
richard.b.katz@nasa.gov


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Abstracts are being accepted for the 6th Military and Aerospace Programmable
Logic Devices (MAPLD) International Conference being held at the Ronald
Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC on 
9-11 September 2003. Programmable devices, technologies, and related 
aspects of digital engineering will comprise the major emphasis of this conference.

Abstracts are due 25 April 2003 to mapld2003@klabs.org.  Late papers will be
accepted for the Poster Session only. The program will be announced no later
than 2 June 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 Space Missions: > 15 Years
Hardware and Software: The Line is Blurring
Radiation Hardening by Design
Digital Signal Processing with Programmable Devices
Design Security
"War Stories" and Lessons Learned

For registration information, please visit http://www.aiaa.org/events/mapld

For a complete list of MAPLD topics, information on seminars, invited speakers,
special sessions, exhibits, and the full call-for-papers, please visit the MAPLD
Int'l Conference site at http://klabs.org/mapld03

The Technical Program will consist of technical paper presentations and a poster
session. The program will include special invited speakers along with the annual
invited history talk.  Select papers will be published in an AIAA peer-reviewed
journal.  This conference is unclassified and open to both foreign participation 
and U.S. citizens.

Invited Speakers Include (more to be announced):

Theron M. Bradley Jr.          
Chief Engineer, NASA           
"Welcome and Opening Remarks"  

Greg Hinckley
President, Mentor Graphics Corporation
"Mil/Aero and PLD's: A CEO's View"

SEMINARS will again be offered.  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: Again, we will have leading engineers and managers on
our panel for a spirited "discussion." One question left open from the 2002 panel
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
Nancy Leveson	           Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
Jack Garman                Lockheed-Martin (NASA, retired)
Fred Martin                   Averstar/Intermetrics
Ben "VHDL" Cohen     Independent Consultant and Author
Steven S. Scott            Chief Engineer, Goddard Space Flight Center
Kevin Tones                 NASA Johnson Space Center
John P. Dimtroff           Aircraft Certification Engineer, FAA

The 6th MAPLD International Conference is hosted by AIAA and the 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
E-mail: mapld2003@klabs.org               
Tel: (301) 286-9705

INDUSTRIAL EXHIBIT reservations should be sent to mapld2003@klabs.org