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From: "G.B." <bauhaus@futureapps.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Getting started with bare-board development
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 10:45:55 +0100
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On 11.11.16 23:19, Adam Jensen wrote:
> For example, would it be essential
> (or especially convenient) to have a hardware development kit or is it
> common to develop this kind of software using an emulator of some kind?

Given your background in VHDL, this is perhaps familiar,
but I'll mention it anyway, collected from here and there:

- would timers be more real on hardware? Certainly more realistic.

- would you miss the physical experience and inspirational
   power (if any) of the real thing?

- does the simulator support sensors and actuators of the
   kind you would like to operate?

Also, if you move to a Ravenscar model of Ada, then chances
are that your RTS will be smaller. So, less memory will be
needed.  At some point, I'd want to try my programs on hardware.

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