From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.unit0.net!cyclone02.ams2.highwinds-media.com!voer-me.highwinds-media.com!peer02.am1!peering.am1!peer01.fr7!news.highwinds-media.com!post01.fr7!fx16.fr7.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Brian Drummond Subject: Re: STM32F4 Discovery, communication and libraries Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <60a42dc6-d8d0-4432-ae5a-86de18b82840@googlegroups.com> <5kkrv9hejn2qhdckkeo8lidkbh3bkme1gn@4ax.com> <5b91313c-acf9-4a6e-b157-6ba7c8021567@googlegroups.com> <0513ad07-6fbe-463a-be6f-097cd5113f52@googlegroups.com> <4f1ec65a-d66a-40bf-a0d6-278fde206e70@googlegroups.com> <1cjwzr30b24xy.11kpydntxhfo5$.dlg@40tude.net> <929e9226-e4aa-474e-843c-68ed800eefad@googlegroups.com> <5b5583ca-c7b2-40be-9090-6253f0514db5@googlegroups.com> <7feccd2d-dcfd-405e-ae5d-e27d6662daa9@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <0Y2Qv.126054$JY.61356@fx16.fr7> NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.49.20.82 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: 1410382716 62.49.20.82 (Wed, 10 Sep 2014 20:58:36 UTC) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 20:58:36 UTC Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 20:58:36 GMT X-Received-Body-CRC: 2719469120 X-Received-Bytes: 2349 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:188958 Date: 2014-09-10T20:58:36+00:00 List-Id: On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 14:56:19 -0700, Roy Emmerich wrote: > I know that in a few years from now microcontrollers will have multiple > cores as a standard offering. Once this occurs it will then be possible > to simultaneously sample as many channels as there are processor cores. > If all my software is written with threading in the first place then > nothing needs to be changed. They already do have multiple cores, if you buy them from http:// www.xmos.com/ Don't know about ADCs and other peripherals on these, though. I'm not sure but I believe their compiler is based on gcc, which suggests that building it with Ada support may not be totally out of the question. All comes back to the RTS then... - Brian