Re: Help with embedded hardware/software platform selection for ADA

[Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de>]

On 02.07.13 01:35, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2013-07-01, Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:
>>
>> Don't be. Meanwhile, there are plenty of Intel Atom and AMD Geode SBCs.
>>
>> E.g. an ALIX board is under 100 EUR.
>>
>>     http://www.pcengines.ch/alix.htm
>>     http://pcengines.ch/pic/alix2b3.jpg
>>
>
> That is way, way too big for some embedded environments (for example if
> someone wants to drop a board into a model aircraft, ground based robot
> or handheld device).

Also, rather expensive if you want to connect many small "systems".
Small here means relative to the size of things in our home environment.
And, I guess, these boards need way too much electrical energy to be
drawn from heavy batteries. Precludes mobile system, "mobile systems"
in a more natural sense of moving, or being placed.

Vendors:

I still wonder why not a single vendor sells a Ravenscar run-time
with compiler at a hobbyist price, without support. Have buyers
sign a contract, on paper, if you have reason to assume they might
otherwise use the compiler for non-small, non-hobbyist things.
Leave watermarks in the code. Anything.