From: joel@OARcorp.com
Subject: Re: Making ADA More Popular
Date: 1999/01/27
Date: 1999-01-27T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <78ni40$95o$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: OuXOQsbS#GA.281@nih2naac.prod2.compuserve.com
In article <OuXOQsbS#GA.281@nih2naac.prod2.compuserve.com>,
"Michael Garrett" <michaelgarrett@csi.com> wrote:
>
> Take an inexpensive processor which has a gnu / cygnus compiler port and its
> evaluation board
> and provide gnat with a runtime environment (RTEMS ADA?) for a decent price,
> around 200.00 US.
>
> This would provide an ADA real-time programming environment that students
> could access and actually design, and code on. ( I am not a student, and
> would be first in line! )
>
> One such board is the hitachi SH1 evaluation kit. For 99.00 it includes a
> decent amount of peripherals, and the cygnus toolchain. I'm not sure if
> RTEMS is ported to the SH1.
RTEMS has been ported to the SH1. This port is new in 4.0.
> A power PC eval board is probably available also.
A number of these exist. I recall that IBM has some for the 4xx series.
I would expect that there are ones available for the Motorola 8xx series.
Don't forget that Motorola also has Coldfire eval boards that would likely
be suitable as a student target.
And remember that a PC can be treated as an embedded target. You can
go so far as cross develop on a UNIX box and debug on it remotely.
This would likely be a good option for many university labs.
> In many companies, it is these evaluation kits which gain the loyalty of
> energetic and inspired individuals. This loyalty gets parts designed in. It
> could also get languages designed in.
>
> I can guarantee that in a years time, Java will be available in this format.
> ADA should be there too.
>
> If Aonix is listening, how about an evaluation Raven kit for a processor
> Eval Board? I understand the financial pain of reading this, but the more
> ADA users there are, we all win.
If someone is interested in sponsoring the development of such a kit using
GNAT/RTEMS, feel free to contact Mark Johannes (mark@OARcorp.com). We would
certainly like to see this option available to educators.
--joel
Joel Sherrill Director of Research & Development
joel@OARcorp.com On-Line Applications Research
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Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-01-21 0:00 how to make Ada more popular? bill_1
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Hans N. Beck
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-01-21 0:00 ` bill_1
1999-01-21 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1999-01-23 0:00 ` micro_ada
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-22 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-24 0:00 ` bill_1
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Kees Serier
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Fraser Wilson
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-01-24 0:00 ` dewar
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-01-25 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-29 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Steve Doiel
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Lack of Ada Windows books (was: " Larry Kilgallen
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Kees Serier
1999-01-22 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-25 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-01-25 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-01-25 0:00 ` bill_1
1999-01-30 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-01-26 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-01-27 0:00 ` kna
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Bob Munck
1999-01-31 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Making ADA More Popular Michael Garrett
1999-01-27 0:00 ` joel [this message]
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Michael Garrett
1999-01-28 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-03 0:00 ` how to make Ada more popular? Donald Duck
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Andrzej Lewandowski
1999-02-03 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
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