Re: Increased Interest In Ada?

["Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com>]

I'm taking a look at the PC/104 card info from: http://www.pc104.org/ It
looks interesting, but as far as I can tell, you'd probably have some
retargeting issues for GNAT no matter what you did. And of course, embedded
programming is more than finding GNAT and RTEMS for some target hardware -
you really need a lot of additional software for it to be useful. From the
hardware side, you'd need to have some basic electrical things like A/Ds,
D/As, (F/Ds, maybe?) discretes & ports that would be useful for student
projects and representative of real-world development.

I'm going to examine the PC/104 thing a bit more thoroughly. If you think of
any other possibilities for an SBC to which GNAT might target with minimal
fuss, let me know... Thanks.

MDC
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"Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com> wrote in message
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> It is clearly commercial possibilities if you can find a decent and cheap
> PC/104 card or a PC motherboard/bios to work with. Then it should be a
matter
> of documenting how to use gnat and/or RTEMS to get results. You may have
to
> write a few drivers for the network card or graphics card.
>
> You would have a great teaching tool and a easy kit to commercialize.