knoll@coopn1.csc.ti.com (Ed Knoll @(719)593-5182) (04/05/91)
We are in the process of planning for a development/demonstration version of an embedded real-time avionics application. Our goal is to use commercial processor/bus architectures; our requirement is to use Ada. I have worked on several programs of this nature. These efforts used commercial 68020 boards on a VME bus using the Telesoft Ada compiler. However, I would like to get some feedback from other people working on actual applications (embedded real-time in general) as to your experiences (positive or negative) regarding the hardware and software you're using. Thanks, Ed Knoll Texas Instruments knoll@coopn1.csc.ti.com
jandres@sag4.ssl.berkeley.edu (Jeff Andres) (04/09/91)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: User hardware/software experiences with embedded Ada applications. Summary: Expires: References: <9104051528.AA06401@tilde> Sender: Followup-To: Distribution: world Organization: Space Science Labs Keywords: In reference to your solicitation for other uses in a r/t embedded applications, while I was with Ford Aerospace Corporation in Sunnyvale, Ca; which is now Loral Space and Range Systems. We used Oregon Software Inc. Pascal-2 Cross-compiler system with the VRTX operating system on customized 68010 boards. The software which we wrote worked out great to say the least and could handle 90% of our needs. OSI, on the otherhand, didn't support us as best they could. We, or should I say, I discovered a bug in their linker and their response was to say,"Oh well!" They indicated that no body else seemed to complain and that I should rewrite my code or change my linking, but they couldn't tell me what I had done wrong in the first place. VRTX was nice. It had all of the necessities that we were looking for. Loral is upgrading the project currently and is going with a 68340, using System Design's Cross-compiler. From what I here things are ok..more reports when I here further.