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From: "RasikaSrinivasan@gmail.com" <RasikaSrinivasan@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada in medical devices
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On Wednesday, June 27, 2012 1:39:06 PM UTC-4, Jeffrey Carter wrote:
> On 06/27/2012 02:56 AM, RasikaSrinivasan@gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > I develop medical devices.
> >
> > If Ada has to take root in this world (at least mine), some requirements:
> > - variety of embedded baremetal targets - ARM, AVR, MSP
> > - a very easy to use package of software + eval boards + variety of examples. Examples interfacing with standard peripherals - ADC, PWM, SPI etc.
> > - debugging support.
> >
> > a bundle around Arduino for example would be a good first step.
> >
> > This will make it easy to get engineers to try Ada out.
> >
> > yes. all this can be assembled - but it takes quit a bit of persistence.
> 
> I presume all this should also be free?
> 
> Considering the huge liabilities a medical-device vendor faces if the device 
> kills people, I'd think you'd be willing to pay to have all this, probably with 
> SPARK support as well. I'm sure there are several vendors who'd be happy to 
> provide you with everything you want for an appropriate fee.
> 
> This seems like a perfect example of a situation where saving a few bucks now 
> costs you a whole lot more later.
> 
> -- 
> Jeff Carter
> "Whatever it is, I'm against it."
> Horse Feathers
> 46
> 
> 
> 
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it is one thing to build a device and something else entirely to induce the engineers to investigate a radically different path from the current ones. 

anyhow, enough said. srini