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From: Tero Koskinen <tero.koskinen@iki.fi>
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Subject: Re: what does your Ada + hardware look like ?
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 22:42:50 +0300
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Hi,

7.10.2015, 1:18, halfmaddad@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi Everyone
>
> What sorts of hardware are you using with Ada? What sort of CPU, is it on a custom PCBs or off the shelf?

Gallery of my 8-bit AVR hardware can be found at
https://www.flickr.com/photos/terokoskinen/albums/72157625466664467

All of these run AVR-Ada.

In addition, I have a lot of Cortex-M and Cortex-A based boards, but on 
those I have run mostly C so far. See
https://www.flickr.com/photos/terokoskinen/ for more complete list

> Has anyone used IC2 or SPI from a desktop to control circuits that don't have a C firmware?

Desktop PCs rarely have I2C or SPI pins exposed. You better use some 
microcontroller between the I2C/SPI IC and the desktop.

http://arduino.ada-language.com/tag/i2c.html should give you some idea.

For example, I once used Arduino and Ada to read my (father's) laptop's 
I2C EEPROM contents:
http://arduino.ada-language.com/recovering-ibm-thinkpad-t42-bios-password-with-avr-ada-and-arduino.html

Yours,
  Tero