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=0.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,f1a7d87c644a81db X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.223.40 with SMTP id qr8mr20792326pbc.0.1340818750038; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 10:39:10 -0700 (PDT) Path: l9ni26528pbj.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.netfront.net!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada in medical devices Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 10:39:06 -0700 Organization: Also freenews.netfront.net; news.tornevall.net Message-ID: References: <48cde2a8-0046-42c2-ac4e-225e2b98a2bf@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 184.20.201.198 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: adenine.netfront.net 1340818749 33419 184.20.201.198 (27 Jun 2012 17:39:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@netfront.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:39:09 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120615 Thunderbird/13.0.1 In-Reply-To: <48cde2a8-0046-42c2-ac4e-225e2b98a2bf@googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: 2012-06-27T10:39:06-07:00 List-Id: On 06/27/2012 02:56 AM, RasikaSrinivasan@gmail.com wrote: > > I develop medical devices. > > If Ada has to take root in this world (at least mine), some requirements: > - variety of embedded baremetal targets - ARM, AVR, MSP > - a very easy to use package of software + eval boards + variety of examples. Examples interfacing with standard peripherals - ADC, PWM, SPI etc. > - debugging support. > > a bundle around Arduino for example would be a good first step. > > This will make it easy to get engineers to try Ada out. > > yes. all this can be assembled - but it takes quit a bit of persistence. I presume all this should also be free? Considering the huge liabilities a medical-device vendor faces if the device kills people, I'd think you'd be willing to pay to have all this, probably with SPARK support as well. I'm sure there are several vendors who'd be happy to provide you with everything you want for an appropriate fee. This seems like a perfect example of a situation where saving a few bucks now costs you a whole lot more later. -- Jeff Carter "Whatever it is, I'm against it." Horse Feathers 46 --- Posted via news://freenews.netfront.net/ - Complaints to news@netfront.net ---