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Niklas Holsti wrote:
>    package ADC is
> 
>       type Count_T is range 0 .. 1023;

Why not mod 2 ** 10?

Is

for Count_T'Size use 10;

appropriate here?

Seems to me these are only used to produce temperatures, and so should 
be hidden from the rest of the application.

>       Saturation : Boolean := True;

Control coupling through global variables. Terrible SW engineering. What 
happens when one task changes the value when another is part way through 
the function?