From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam@spam.com>
Subject: Re: Embedded
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 03:35:30 GMT
Date: 2005-08-20T03:35:30+00:00 [thread overview]
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Lanarcam wrote:
> The usual way is to select a microcontroller with the required
> I/O and based on the complexity some amount of RAM and ROM.
>
> You often choose a microcontroller from a family you are
> familiar with. You then select an OS or no OS, depending
> on the requirements.
That's the usual way, but that's not necessarily a good way. A better way is to
choose a suitable language, then choose the hardware to suit the language
choice. Since Ada's about the only thing around that was designed for embedded
systems, an unbiased selection of a suitable language will usually choose Ada.
However, even if you do it the other way around, there's at least one compiler
that produces ANSI C as its intermediate language, so you can always choose Ada.
--
Jeff Carter
"Mr. President, we must not allow a mine-shaft gap!"
Dr. Strangelove
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-19 20:57 Embedded Lanarcam
2005-08-19 23:02 ` Embedded Martin Dowie
2005-08-20 3:35 ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2005-08-20 13:51 ` Embedded Marin David Condic
2005-08-24 18:00 ` Embedded Colin Paul Gloster
2005-08-24 20:38 ` Embedded Lanarcam
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