Re: CPU recommendations from an Ada perspective?

[Rakesh Malhotra <rakesh.malhotra@pop.safetran.com>]

Mike

I am a little unclear as to what the questions is here - are you asking
about 32 bit CPUs or Ada support for these CPUs ?    I'll try and answer
both.

I've been developing embedded applications using 32 bit CPUs for many
years.  The CPUs have been Motorola ones - 68302, 68332, 68030 and
68360.  All of them are 32 bit CPUs.  I have used Ada and C,C++ with all
these CPUs and have not had any trouble with Ada support on them.  
There are quite a few Ada compiler vendors who support these CPUs.  And
Ada itself is excellent as a programming language.

(A bit off topic) In fact, I am presently working on an embedded box
which has 1 68332 and 4 68302's and we are implementing the software in
C, C++, proprietary RTOS.   In spite of using PC-Lint on our code it is
interesting to note that we have to find many bugs at runtime - most of
these bugs just would not have happened if Ada had been used.  (Not only
would the bugs not be there but the overall software would be better
designed - we do use a lot of Ada here, just that this project was a
pre-existing product already done in C). 

I have also used a couple of Intel CPUs (8085, 8086, 8088, 80186 - not
with Ada) but my personal preference is for the Motorola ones.

--
Rakesh
Opinions expressed are personal ones.

Mike Silva wrote:
> 
> I'm reluctant to ask this question because it's so vague at this point, but
> my curiosity has won out.  I'd like to hear any recommendations for (or
> against) those 32 bit CPU families which are supported by good Ada tools.
> [snip]
> Mike