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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3a4656a5edc0dab4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: controlnews3.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: britt@acm.org (Britt Snodgrass) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada used in General Aviation (GA) applications? Date: 11 May 2004 07:29:33 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <5fe90c1a.0405110629.7550036@posting.google.com> References: <87hduoynoq.fsf@insalien.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.175.225.22 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1084285773 21542 127.0.0.1 (11 May 2004 14:29:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 14:29:33 +0000 (UTC) Xref: controlnews3.google.com comp.lang.ada:444 Date: 2004-05-11T07:29:33-07:00 List-Id: Ludovic Brenta wrote in message news:<87hduoynoq.fsf@insalien.org>... > I happen to work in that particular market. Barco makes cockpit > displays. The vast majority of the software is written in Ada; it is > my understanding that Ada is still mandatory for DO-178B > certification, but I may be wrong on this. Now the general aviation > market is only a part of the markets that Barco addresses, and usually > GA aircraft tend to be on the higher end of the spectrum (i.e. at > least turboprop, not piston-engined). DO-178B (see section 4.4.2) does not specify or recommend any particular software language, regardless of level. Some C language applications such as RTOS's have been certified to DO-178B level A. However the ARINC 653-1 standard(last updated in Oct 2003) does recommend Ada (see section 1.4.2). Britt