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=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,f1a7d87c644a81db X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.228.227 with SMTP id sl3mr1653159pbc.5.1340331470771; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:17:50 -0700 (PDT) Path: l9ni5278pbj.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Patrick Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada in medical devices Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:16:13 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <531da510-cc50-46f4-85b6-247740a77062@googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.159.21.240 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1340331470 25455 127.0.0.1 (22 Jun 2012 02:17:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 02:17:50 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.159.21.240; posting-account=cUi90woAAADTaOISowbbHM8GUD0-opJO User-Agent: G2/1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2012-06-21T19:16:13-07:00 List-Id: Hi Jerry I work with scientific instruments. Most of my customers are university res= earchers but some are hospitals. Many instruments can double duty between c= hemical and biological testing. I don't know too much but I can say a few things.. Jeol makes NMR units, Nuclear Magnetic Spectrometers. They are featured in = one of Adacores videos and can be found on youtube. These instruments are A= da based. Beckman-Coulter is or was using Ada. Teledyne ISCO is using RTEMS. It could be with just C but I'm guessing it m= ight be with Ada. Many of the instruments I have worked with are based on MC68K or similar CP= Us and I have seen very few microcontroller based instruments, usually the = RAM/ROM is external. I haven't spent much time trying to disassemble other peoples firmware but = there is a very expensive interface card(>$10K) that I carry out repairs on= . I've poked around in the firmware looking for clues as I have to repair t= hem without schematics and need all the help I can get. There are clues that some sort of IDE is being used like CodeWarrior and th= at would make me suspect firmware written in C. Some of the firmware I have= looked at had comments intact at the end of the binary and in fact this is= the only usefully information I have been able to recover. I have spent quite a bit of time using various desktop software to control = scientific instruments and I seriously doubt that it is written in Ada, mos= t of it is buggy crap. After nearly 14 years of repairing other peoples stuff I am considering bui= lding my own instruments and this is the prime reason why I am interested i= n Ada right now. I would love to hear back about any information about Ada being used with s= cientific instrumentation. Thanks-Patrick