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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,1a44c40a66c293f3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.cs.univ-paris8.fr!ciril.fr!oleane.net!oleane!hunter.axlog.fr!nobody From: Jean-Pierre Rosen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Preferred OS, processor family for running embedded Ada? Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:39:01 +0100 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: <1172192349.419694.274670@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1172239820.896603.222120@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <962vre.o8v.ln@hunter.axlog.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhost.axlog.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: s1.news.oleane.net 1172592064 14314 195.25.228.57 (27 Feb 2007 16:01:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:01:04 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) In-Reply-To: Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:9574 Date: 2007-02-27T16:39:01+01:00 List-Id: Dr. Adrian Wrigley a �crit : > On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:34:09 +0100, Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote: > >> Dr. Adrian Wrigley a �crit : >> [Ada and VHDL] >>> Perhaps a common denominator language can be devised >> Have you looked at AADL? > > I hadn't seen this. Interesting. > > It looks quite similar in some respects to what I was thinking of. > Particularly the emphasis on multiple representations of the > underlying program (graphical, XML, plain text etc). > > It looks like it draws together aspects of VHDL and Ada without > really being based on either. Is it going to be the next Big Thing? A lot of people is trying to make this happen :-). In an nutshell, AADL is a design language at system level; many concepts are inherited from Ada, and you'll find many Ada people involved (Joyce Tokar did the Ada binding), as well as AADL presentations at Ada conferences. -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr