Re: Increased Interest In Ada?

["Hans-Olof Danielsson" <Hans-Olof.Danielsson@swipnet.se>]

Another option is the Lego Mindstorm robotics kit.

The robotics contains a Hitachi H8 microcontroller which is supported by the
latest GCC version. Recently there was a posting on the *crossgcc* list
regarding building a C cross compiler for H8 with GNU/Linux as host , so
there is at least a GCC-based C cross compilor.

When GNAT moves to GCC common source tree ( according to earlier posting on
this cla-list, that is planed for GCC 3.1 ) it shouldn�t be to difficult to
build a GNAT cross compiler for H8. It might be equaly easy ( or difficult )
with GCC 2.81 ( if it supports H8 ) used for GNAT 3.13p.

The next step would then be to build a binding to the robotic ROM image,
making it possible to control the robot from Ada.

HOD

Hans-Olof Danielsson, Danitek AB, Dragspelsv. 20, S-732 32 Arboga, Sweden
Tel: int +46 589 140 38, Email: Hans-Olof.Danielsson@swipnet.se
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"Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com> wrote:
>
> I'm taking a look at the PC/104 card info from: http://www.pc104.org/ It
> looks interesting, but as far as I can tell, you'd probably have some
> retargeting issues for GNAT no matter what you did. And of course,
embedded
> programming is more than finding GNAT and RTEMS for some target hardware -
> you really need a lot of additional software for it to be useful. From the
> hardware side, you'd need to have some basic electrical things like A/Ds,
> D/As, (F/Ds, maybe?) discretes & ports that would be useful for student
> projects and representative of real-world development.
>
> I'm going to examine the PC/104 thing a bit more thoroughly. If you think
of
> any other possibilities for an SBC to which GNAT might target with minimal
> fuss, let me know... Thanks.
>
> MDC
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>
> "Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com> wrote in message
> news:972uon$729@news.kvaerner.com...
> > It is clearly commercial possibilities if you can find a decent and
cheap
> > PC/104 card or a PC motherboard/bios to work with. Then it should be a
> matter
> > of documenting how to use gnat and/or RTEMS to get results. You may have
> to
> > write a few drivers for the network card or graphics card.
> >
> > You would have a great teaching tool and a easy kit to commercialize.
>
>
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