Tartan Introduces Ada 9X

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From: murray@tartan.com (Helen Murray)
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Subject: Tartan Introduces Ada 9X Development Systems
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Date: 25 Oct 94 14:48:36 GMT
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        Tartan Introduces First Commercially Available Ada 9X
        Development Systems for Embedded Processors

        Provides Smooth Transition to New Programming Language


        Pittsburgh, PA, October 18, 1994 --- Tartan, Inc. introduces

        version 5.1 of its Ada development systems which contain

        support for several advanced Ada 9X features and include

        significantly improved programming tools. Tartan's products

        are the first production quality commercially available Ada

        9X development systems for embedded processors. Tartan is

        providing Ada 9X support in step with the national and

        international standardization of this modern programming

        language revision. A simple command-line switch allows Tartan

        5.1 system users to begin to experiment with the features of

        Ada 9X without disrupting existing Ada 83 code.


        Tartan is making the announcement at the DSP World Expo at

        the INFOmart Conference and Exhibition Center in Dallas,

        Texas on October 18th.


        "The Ada language has traditionally been used for defense and

        aerospace applications, and recently is also becoming popular

        in the commercial marketplace," stated Lee Ehrlichman,

        Tartan's President and CEO. "Large and complex commercial

        applications require the high-speed performance and critical

        safety factors that Ada provides. Now with the 9X revision,

        there are additional capabilities that will make Ada even

        more attractive to the commercial marketplace."


        Tartan's Ada development systems apply to all segments of the

        embedded real-time systems market, including aerospace and

        defense, commercial avionics, digital signal processing,

        medical instrumentation, process control and public

        transportation.


        The Ada 9X features included in Tartan's Ada 5.1 systems

        increase the flexibility of Ada while retaining its

        reliability. One feature, protected types, provides an

        efficient mechanism for multitask synchronized access to

        shared data, a critical requirement for real-time systems.

        Another Ada 9X feature is a hierarchical library structure

        containing child packages and subprograms. Hierarchical child

        packages allow extension and continued privacy of private

        types without massive disruption of the system.


        Also included in Tartan Ada 5.1 is a full 9X parser and some

        support for real-time annex features, including priority

        queuing. Software engineers can check existing Ada 83 code

        for syntactic upward compatibility using the 9X parser.


        "Tartan Ada 5.1 provides users with a solution that addresses

        current and future needs, in one system," stated Wayne

        Lieberman, General Manager of Tartan's Ada Business Unit.

        "Software designers have the ability to work in Ada 83, the

        language with which they are most familiar, and smoothly

        transition to Ada 9X, the new language standard, at their own

        pace."


        Additional 9X features will be incrementally added to

        Tartan's Ada systems to provide a manageable path for

        software designers to integrate the powerful new language

        capabilities into their applications. Tartan will complete

        the implementation of the core Ada 9X features long before

        customers are required to transition to the new Ada standard.


        In addition to the Ada 9X features, Tartan Ada 5.1 offers new
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