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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,cec20777e0d41ea0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-02-23 13:29:22 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!213.56.195.71!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!jussieu.fr!enst!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: "Hans-Olof Danielsson" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Increased Interest In Ada? Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 22:21:26 +0100 Organization: ENST, France Sender: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org Message-ID: References: <3A82EFA2.C8756B09@acm.org> <970ma1$1l7$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <972uon$729@news.kvaerner.com> <975uv4$qbe$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 982963760 77743 137.194.161.2 (23 Feb 2001 21:29:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 21:29:20 +0000 (UTC) To: Return-Path: X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail<->news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:5496 Date: 2001-02-23T22:21:26+01:00 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 Web: www.node98.com/danitek, Member of Node98 www.node98.com "Marin David Condic" 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 > -- > Marin David Condic > Senior Software Engineer > Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com > Enabling the digital revolution > e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com > Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ > > > > "Tarjei T. Jensen" 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > comp.lang.ada mailing list > comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org > http://ada.eu.org/mailman/listinfo/comp.lang.ada