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: 2001-03-05 11:04:03 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!freenix!enst!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: Rush Kester Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Increased Interest In Ada? Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 14:00:59 -0500 Organization: AdaSoft at Johns Hopkins Univ/ Applied Physics Lab 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 983818926 48837 137.194.161.2 (5 Mar 2001 19:02:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 19:02:06 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Return-Path: X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en 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:5435 Date: 2001-03-05T14:00:59-05:00 There are two Ada interfaces to the Lego Mindstorms robotics kit already available. One is Ada to NQC developed by Barry Fagin at the US Air Force Academy, see http://www.usafa.af.mil/dfcs/adamindstorms.htm The other is a binding Lego's SPIRIT.OCX active X control developed by David Botton, see http://www.adapower.com/gnatcom/mindstorm.zip Rush Kester Software Systems Engineer Hans-Olof Danielsson wrote: > 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 -- Rush Kester Software Systems Engineer AdaSoft at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab. email: rush.kester@jhuapl.edu phone: (240) 228-3030 (live M-F 9:30am-4:30pm, voicemail anytime) fax: (240) 228-6779 http://hometown.aol.com/rwkester/myhomepage/index.html