Re: helping picking the right RTOS

[Britt <britt.snodgrass@gmail.com>]

On Jun 8, 9:32 am, Patrick <patr...@spellingbeewinnars.org> wrote:
> Hi Everyone
>
> I would like to run Ada on bare metal but it doesn't look like this will be possible for me in the short term.
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> There are many RTOS to choose from and it's hard to know which ones will play nice with Ada.
>
> I have been repairing scientific instruments for 14 years now and I am just recently considering building one of my own to sell(a spectrofluorometer).  I would love to do this in Ada.
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> I don't think I will use a microcontroller for this but rather add my own memory and peripherals. It's not an absolute requirement but running on ARM sounds like a good place to start.
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> I would like the instrument to be able to participate on a LAN.
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> Simplicity is more import to me then power, I will need to get to know the OS well.
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> So all-in-all, an RTOS that brings me as close to what a bare metal environment would have been but supports networking and will support all of Ada's core language features like tasking, would be ideal.
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> If anyone could give me some pointers, I would really appreciate it, this will be quite a challenge for me and getting started with the right OS could make a huge difference.
>
> Thanks for reading-Patrick

For open-source OS that work with Ada and that you can try for free,
look at RTEMS and MaRTE:

http://www.rtems.org
http://marte.unican.es/