Re: ada IDE

[Jeffrey Creem <jeff@thecreems.com>]

Ananth the Boss wrote:
> we are involved in development of safety critical software for flight
> apps. can ny one say which is the best IDE for ADA for development of
> flight software
> 

If you are doing safety critical software (assuming you mean something 
like DO-178b level a or b) then the IDE is really secondary to the 
compiler/runtime. Pick that first and it will help guide you to an IDE. 
You probably can't pick the compiler/runtime (or perhaps OS) until you 
know what your hardware platform is (unless there is some flexibility 
there).

If you select something like Greenhills Ada with the Integrity OS then 
it would be silly to consider GPS.

There is really not enough in the question to respond to this all that 
clearly.


The high level choices will be something from

Greenhills/Greenhills
www.ghs.com (perhaps integrity (OS) with AdaMULT (compiler).
or

WindRiver/AdaCore
www.wrs.com with www.gnat.com (vxWorks with the ARINC 653 with GNAT).

or

BAE Systems/DDC-I

http://platformsolutions.na.baesystems.com:8080/CsLeos/CsLEOS.jsp

or

Aonix/Aonix

http://www.aonix.com/objectada.html


There might also be someting in the lynxos/GNAT cagegory to 
consider..not sure.

In any case, these seem to be the big players in the area.

Disclaimer -- I work at BAE SYSTEMS for my day job.