Re: what does your Ada + hardware look like ?

[halfmaddad@gmail.com]

Hi Dmitry

You work with landing gear correct?

Do you run with an OS ? I know we can run without one but then we lose tasking, nested subprograms and exception handling, no?

So I work with scientific instruments. Sometimes I modify them for people but I basically just repair them. I have thought about designing one for a long time. It would take a lot less time and I would end up with a better product if I could do it in Ada rather then C/C++.

If each instrument will have a desktop computer beside it anyways, does it make so much sense to struggle with a small embedded design. Side note, I get beat up everytime I dare to use the word embdded. I mean a memory constrained device without an OS. If I have a desktop computer the main issue would be interfacing it to an external circuit that has no firmware or at least none that I wrote.

I was wondering about using SPI with a GPIO card but I have not done this before. I know there are also USB-GPIO adapters.

Am I making things clearer or worse ? :)

I have to run out for a few hours.

-Patrick