Re: Getting started with bare-board development

[Adam Jensen <hanzer@riseup.net>]

On 11/14/2016 04:04 AM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> I think you are confusing things a bit. If you have computing hardware
> mocked you are doing simulation and the time is simulation time. If the
> peripheral hardware is real or partially real it is hardware-in-the-loop
> simulation (HIL). HIL is usually real-time because. What people are
> saying is that HIL is much more cost efficient developing platform than
> some embedded board. Furthermore Ada is ideal for HIL because Ada
> software is portable. So you can develop almost everything on the PC and
> test almost everything in the loop. Then if some hardware (except the
> board itself) is too expensive or difficult to use, it can be simulated
> (mocked) in turn. Which is especially important when you want to test
> some catastrophic or improbable scenarios.

Yeah, I can imagine this stack (basic):
 workstation's hardware - operating system - run-time system - program

And this stack:
 embedded hardware - embedded run-time system - RT-program

And this stack:
 RT-program
 embedded run-time system
 emulator (Qemu)
 operating system
 workstation

But this setup is confusing:
 RT-program
 embedded target run-time system
 simulated hardware
 native run-time system
 operating system
 workstation