Re: Did anyone identify an Ada which targeted microcontrollers?

["Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-93" <condicma@PWFL.COM>]

"John M. Mills" <jm59@PRISM.GATECH.EDU> writes:
>In the recent thread concerning microcontrollers, I missed whether a viable
>Ada or 'mini-Ada' cross-compiler was identified which targets 8-bit micro-
>processors.  We are considering assembler or C to code an embedded processor
<snip>

    I received a number of e-mails with suggestions for embedded
    controllers from my original post, but never heard of anything
    that quite fit my criteria. (Especially, the Ada95 part.) My
    criteria are somewhat different from yours (I could use a few more
    than 8 bits) but I think that until you get to the
    "IBM-PC-with-windows-SBC" level (not what *I* would call an
    embedded controller - just to bait a few flames ;-) you aren't
    going to be able to target Ada to the application.

    I personally think there might be some money to be made by an Ada
    vendor who put together an "embedded controller" kit that included
    some reasonably small-yet-powerful-yet-cheap SBC that connected to
    a PC through a UART and connected cleanly to their compilation
    environment. I'd do the job myself if I had the compilation
    environment (and the time! :-)

    If you hear of anything, let me know. I'm still out there looking.

    MDC

Marin David Condic, Senior Computer Engineer    ATT:        561.796.8997
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