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From: Brian Drummond <brian_drummond@btconnect.com>
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Subject: Re: Why so hard to come up with a simple embedded Ada system?
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:00:38 +0100
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On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 17:26:45 -0700 (PDT), usenet@scriptoriumdesigns.com wrote:

>On Jul 17, 9:29�am, Georg Bauhaus <rm-host.bauh...@maps.futureapps.de>
>wrote:
>> Is there, in your view, a way to approach the subject as
>> a cooperative effort, touchy as it may be, with the simpler
>> goal of gradually improving an AVR run-time system and the tools?
>> Maybe making it portable where possible so more vendors
>> become interested?
>
>I think getting an easy-to-use Ada on AVR (a nice and easy to obtain
>chip, and available in DIP for budget prototyping) would be great.
>Any form of tasking would probably be too much to ask, but maybe not
>on the bigger members of the family.
>
>Every bit as desirable IMO would be Ada on ARM7 and/or Cortex Mx, with
>Ravenscar tasking.  The possibilities with Ada on e.g. http://mbed.org/nxp/lpc1768/
>are very enticing.

Another attractive ARM target, possibly more widely known in the open source
community, would be the Beagle Board.

http://beagleboard.org/

- Brian