Daniel.Roy@SEI.CMU.EDU (04/14/91)
JPL/SEI ADA AND 1750A WORKSHOP
Call for participation
JPL/SEI Ada-1750A Workshop
Wednesday - Thursday, 26-27 June 1991
JPL Pasadena CA
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the Software Engineering Institute
(SEI) are sponsoring a workshop about the current state of the art in the
development of flight software in Ada targeted at the 1750A Instruction Set
Architecture (ISA). Users and providers of this software technology are
invited to participate.
The primary purposes of this workshop are:
- For the user community to share experiences and lessons learned,
and express their needs for tools, features and performance of Ada
compilers.
- For vendors, to better prioritize the user's needs, discuss the
issues, and demonstrate the optimum use of their products.
- For all, to better understand the difficult problems of
implementing hard realtime applications using Ada in a severely
constrained environment, to refine the existing Ada evaluation
technology and to gather the lessons learned with 1750A.
The target audience of this workshop is the technical personnel who are
providing or using state of the art 1750A/Ada technology for demanding
applications such as flight software.
The first day is reserved for user's presentations. The second day is mainly
devoted to technical advice and responses from vendors. Rooms will be
available for private meetings.
The workshop will feature short (20 minute) presentations discussing
notably:
- Compiler evaluation and selection (emphasizing application-
specific benchmarks)
- Ada runtime system tailoring vs separate executive use
- Ada features and time/space tradeoffs (tasking, scheduling
paradigms, memory management)
- Ada design and coding styles for high performance applications
- System engineering issues (shared/expanded memory, multi-CPU,
etc.) including alternatives to 1750A (1750B, heterogeneous
hardware)
- Management experience (deemphasizing the application itself to
show the universal value of the lessons learned)
A written summary of the workshop, including a copy of all presentation
materials, transcript of the discussions, bibliography, and list of points
of contact, will be mailed to attendees within 60 days of the workshop.
APPLICATION FOR JPL/SEI ADA-1750A WORKSHOP
Attendance will be limited to 40. Applications must be received by Friday
May 17, 1991. Notification of acceptance will be mailed by Friday, May 31,
1991.
Please complete this form and send to:
Daniel Roy
SEI, CMU
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
E-Mail: dmr@sei.cmu.edu
Fax: (412) 268 5758
Phone: (412) 268 6180
Secretary: Lisa Jolly (412) 268 7787
Applicant information
Name:
Company:
Address:
City/State/ZIP:
Phone/E-mail:
Please provide a one or two paragraph description of your proposed
presentation:
Please suggest topics or issues that you would like to see discussed among
the workshop participants.
A tour of points of interest at JPL will be conducted during the workshop.
To assist us in sizing arrangements, please indicate your interest below:
______ Yes, I'm interested. ______ No, I'm not interested.