Early Registration Closes August 9
                                  and
                       Final Program Announced



            7th Mil/Aerospace Applications of Programmable 
            Logic Devices (MAPLD) International Conference

         Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
                           Washington, D.C.
                        September 8-10, 2004

                Hosted by the NASA Office of Logic Design



   Registration is now open for the 7th annual MAPLD International 
   Conference, September 8-10, 2004, Washington, D.C.

      http://www.klabs.org/mapld04/reg/registration.html

   Early Registration Closes August 9, 2004.

   The MAPLD program features over 130 technical presentations in a
   variety of sessions, seminars, and workshops, as well as about 40
   Industrial and Government Exhibits covering programmable logic devices
   and technologies, digital engineering, and related fields for military
   and aerospace applications.  Devices, technologies, logic design, 
   flight applications, fault tolerance, usage, reliability, radiation
   susceptibility, and encryption applications of programmable devices,
   processors, and adaptive computing systems in military and aerospace
   systems are among the subjects for the conference.  Abstracts are
   available on-line, via the conference home page.

   The Invited Speaker program will include:

      WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS

      Jim Nehman, Director of Development Programs
      NASA Office of Exploration Systems 

                   -and-

      INVITED HISTORY TALK

      Captain John W. Young (Gemini 3, 10; Apollo 10, 16; STS-1,9)
      NASA Johnson Space Center


   SEMINARS - Two full-day seminars will be presented:

      * VHDL Synthesis for High-Reliability Systems
      * Aerospace Mishaps and Lessons Learned


   PANEL SESSION: 

      * "Why Is Space Exploration So Hard?  The Roles of Man and Machine"

        - Howard McCurdy   American University, School of Public Affairs
        - Matt Forsbacka   Project Prometheus, NASA
        - Hugh Blair-Smith MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, Apollo
        - Dr. Tom Jones    Planetary Scientist, Author, and Astronaut


   WORKSHOPS & "BIRDS OF A FEATHER" SPECIAL SESSIONS

      * Mitigation Methods for Reprogrammable Logic in
           The Space Radiation Environment
      * Reconfigurable Computing - New Extended Format!
      * PLD Failures, Analyses, and the Impact on Systems - NEW for 2004!!!
      * "An Application Engineer's View" - Back for 2004! 
      * "NESC and Software" - a joint session of MAPLD and the NASA
           Engineering and Safety Center
      * Digital Engineering and Computer Design - A Retrospective and
           Lessons Learned for Today's Engineers 
           * Includes a disassembly and discussion of a Block II
             Apollo Guidance Computer by the engineers who designed it.


   TECHNICAL SESSIONS:

      * Applications: Military and Aerospace
      * Systems and Design Tools
      * Radiation and Mitigation Techniques
      * Logic Design and Processors
      * Reconfigurable Computing, Evolvable Hardware, and Security
      * Poster Session


   INDUSTRIAL and GOVERNMENT EXHIBITS RESERVATIONS:


      NASA Office of Logic Design         Mentor Graphics Corporation
      Xilinx Corporation                  Synthworks
      Tensilica                           Actel Corporation
      Annapolis Microsystems              Space Micro, Inc.
      SEAKR Engineering                   Aldec
      IEEE Aerospace and Electronics      Systems Society
      Hier Design                         
      Lattice Semiconductor               Quicksilver Technology
      Celoxica                            BAE Systems
      The Andraka Consulting Group        Aeroflex
      Synopsys                            Peregrine Semiconductor
      Starbridgesystems                   Condor Engineering
      AccelChip                           NASA Engineering and Safety Center
      Synplicity                          Defense Microelectronics Activity
      Southwest Research Institute        Altera
      SRC Computers                       Mathstar
      Sigrity                             US Semiconductor Corp.
      ProDesign                           Mission Research Corporation
      Honeywell                           Atmel 
      LSI Logic Corporation               Aitech Defense Systems Inc 



   CONFERENCE HOME PAGE - http://klabs.org/mapld04 - contains 
   an abundance of information on both technical and programmatic
   aspects of the conference.   This conference is open to US and foreign
   participation and is not classified.  For related information, please
   see the NASA Office of Logic Design Web Site (http://klabs.org).


   For more information, please visit http://klabs.org/mapld04
   or contact:

      Richard Katz - Conference Chair   NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
      mapld2004@klabs.org               Tel: (301) 286-9705


   Late abstracts will be accepted for poster and worshop sessions only.  Please
   send submissions to mapld2004@klabs.org