From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,6a1311b71dd99ac7,start X-Google-Thread: 107e1d,6a1311b71dd99ac7,start X-Google-Thread: fcea4,6a1311b71dd99ac7,start X-Google-Thread: 107324,6a1311b71dd99ac7,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid107e1d,gidfcea4,gid107324,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder3.cambrium.nl!feeder2.cambrium.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!193.201.147.84.MISMATCH!xlned.com!feeder1.xlned.com!news-out2.kabelfoon.nl!newsfeed.kabelfoon.nl!bandi.nntp.kabelfoon.nl!193.190.198.58.MISMATCH!aotearoa.belnet.be!ikaria.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!not-for-mail From: dirk@cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Dirk Craeynest) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,fr.comp.lang.ada,be.comp.programming,nl.comp.programmeren Subject: "Ada at Barco Avionics" presentation now on Ada-Belgium site Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 07:16:12 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Ada-Belgium, c/o Dept. of Computer Science, K.U.Leuven Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: muspel.cs.kuleuven.be X-Trace: ikaria.belnet.be 1181978172 3377 134.58.42.26 (16 Jun 2007 07:16:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@belnet.be NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 07:16:12 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Originator: dirk@cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Dirk Craeynest) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16209 fr.comp.lang.ada:995 be.comp.programming:1314 nl.comp.programmeren:7591 Date: 2007-06-16T07:16:12+00:00 List-Id: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Post-event announcements A d a - B e l g i u m r e c e n t l y o r g a n i z e d a technical presentation by Ludovic Brenta of Barco Avionics, Belgium A d a a t B a r c o A v i o n i c s : h i s t o r y , c o d i n g s t a n d a r d s , a n d p r o d u c t s Tuesday, June 12, 2007 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mini-report by a participant On the 12th of June, Ludovic Brenta gave a very interesting talk to Ada-Belgium on the use of Ada at Barco. Barco is a leading European supplier of displays and related technologies. Ada is used in Barco's avionics products, predominantly cockpit display and control-display units. As in all computing the processing power of these devices has risen and is now enough to support reasonable amount of software. Typically these devices contain some sort of display software, communications, exception logging and self test, though the latest devices have enough processing power to allow other applications to run in a time sharing configuration. All of this must be certifiable to the prevailing standard - DO 178B - and almost all is written in Ada - a few lines of machine code and some C is used in some cases. The requirements of certification were outlined and the resulting constraints on the development team were described. Barco has developed a coding standard to enable certifiable software to be written and the rationale of the standard was explained. Presentation available online The slides of this technical presentation are available on-line here: "Ada at Barco Avionics: history, coding standards, and products", June 2007 (Adobe Portable Document Format, PDF, 2296 KB). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dirk Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.be (for Ada-Belgium/-Europe/SIGAda/WG9 mail) +-------------/ Home: http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium |Ada-Belgium / FTP: ftp://ftp.cs.kuleuven.be/pub/Ada-Belgium |on Internet/ E-mail: ada-belgium-board@cs.kuleuven.be +----------/ Maillist: ada-belgium-info-request@cs.kuleuven.be