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Subject: Re: Help with embedded hardware/software platform selection for ADA
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On Monday, July 1, 2013 4:35:54 PM UTC-7, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2013-07-01, Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:
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> > Don't be. Meanwhile, there are plenty of Intel Atom and AMD Geode SBCs.
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> > E.g. an ALIX board is under 100 EUR.
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> >    http://www.pcengines.ch/alix.htm
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> >    http://pcengines.ch/pic/alix2b3.jpg
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> That is way, way too big for some embedded environments (for example if
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> someone wants to drop a board into a model aircraft, ground based robot
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> or handheld device).
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> ARM is ideally suited for this market; take a look at the latest Olimex
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> boards for some examples of ARM board form factors. The ones Olimex have
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> produced over the last year or so in response to the Raspberry Pi are
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> rather capable boards.
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> Simon.

Exactly.  There are countless applications for these "low-end" ARMS, which =
have 8kb-1Mb of Flash, and 2kb-128kb of RAM.  This is the universe I work i=
n, and it's a big and active universe, and I can't use Ada even though I kn=
ow it's a much better tool than C or C++.  And that's why I was anxiously h=
oping that the Cortex M3 GNAT release would become available at the libre s=
ite, but it's not.  Ada can't compete where it doesn't even show up.