Re: Point a beginner in the right direction? Cheap bare-board to run with a RTOS for running Ada

[Marcus F <trenatos@gmail.com>]

Thank you, Jacob, this is excellent information.

I'd heard about ADA on Arduino, but wouldn't there be a relatively severe lack of space for code?

x86 and Marte sounds like a good beginner option, hardware is cheap and easy to come by, and I'm not worried about board-size or anything like that, this is purely for learning how to design, develop, and integrate a real system.

On Wednesday, June 19, 2013 1:20:45 PM UTC-5, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> Marcus F wrote:
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> > Pretty much what the topic says, I'm asking for suggestions on getting
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> > No heavy OS, light and fast, so I figured a RTOS to run mainly Ada
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> A tried option is an Arduino and AVR-Ada
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> (http://sourceforge.net/p/avr-ada/wiki/Home/), but it is not quite a
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> full Ada implementation.
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> Another option is x86 and Marte OS (http://marte.unican.es/).
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> If you want to play with LEON2/3 CPUs ORK+ (http://web.dit.upm.es/~ork/)
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> is an option.  I don't know how easy LEON2/3 CPUs are to come by.
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> RTEMS (http://rtems.org/) should be another option - with a large choice
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> of target architectures - but I am not sure I know anybody actually
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> Greetings,
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> Jacob
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> -- 
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> "Those who will not reason, are bigots,
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>  those who cannot, are fools, and
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>  those who dare not, are slaves."