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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b736111afc6e20ee X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Robert C. Leif, Ph.D." Subject: Embedded Processor/Compiler Selection Date: 1998/02/21 Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19980221153316.0084cbe0@mail.4dcomm.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 327384929 Sender: Ada programming language Comments: To: Marin David Condic Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: rleif@mail.4dcomm.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-02-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: To: Marin David Condic Senior Computer Engineer Pratt & Whitney From: Bob Leif, Ph.D. Vice President Ada_Med My suggestion is to have one of the Ada vendors host their compiler on Windows CE, which is hosted on multiple CPUs. CE must have a common intermediate form. You do NOT have to use any part of the Microsoft GUI or Windowing environment. CE was designed for embedded systems and is building market share. This way, you will not be sponsoring a special but helping to start a viable maintained, commercial product. Amusingly, Ada code which uses Latin 1 will have a significant advantage in code size over the other compilers, which use 2 byte Unicode. ---------------------------------- You wrote: Embedded Processor/Compiler Selection Our compiler/processor search team is also looking at the following processors: Coldfire StrongARM Super H - Hitachi RH-32 We are interested in hearing about any sort of embedded development with these processors that is similar to what we are constructing: An engine control with a highly specialized computer, having hard real time and reliability constraints. Naturally, we are interested in any experience (and sources for compilers) for programming these devices in Ada. (If this turns out to be the right answer, we might consider paying for a port. But we'd have to be convinced that this was the right long-term processor selection.) We would be interested in hearing about applications that are not programmed in Ada, provided they are reasonably similar to our own usage - high reliability, hard real time, bare silicon/ground up programming. If you can tell us about your usage of these processors, what you like/dislike about them, sources for tools, price/performance, whatever - we would find it a big help. Thanks for any information you can send. MDC Marin David Condic. --------------------------------------------------------------------------