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  • Article Nov 16 '17

    Assessing the Ada Language for Audio Applications

    Published in Electronic Design by Gustavo Hoffmann and Raphaël Amiard
    This in-depth article evaluates the use of the Ada language for DSP applications, comparing its advantages versus C and C++. It also presents the porting of a C language implementation of the MPEG-2 Layer-2 decoder, based on fixed-point operations, to the Ada language.
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  • Article Aug 16 '17

    Code cleaning with SPARK and Ada: Cut development costs upfront

    Published in Embedded Computing Design by Quentin Ochem
    This article discusses how Ada and SPARK technology can cut development costs by detecting bugs earlier in the development cycle.
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  • Article Mar 31 '17

    Ada: a C Developer’s Perspective

    Published in Methods and Tools by Robert Tice
    The author describes how Ada appeared to a long-time C programmer.
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  • Article Mar 22 '17

    Comparing Ada and High Integrity C++

    Published in Blog by Jim Rogers
    Jim Rogers compares the High Integrity C++ standard to out-of-the-box Ada, and notes that many of the recommendations are unnecessary for Ada, and others where using of a separate tool is required are supported directly by Ada profiles and restrictions.
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  • Article Feb 24 '17

    Ada language for automation

    Published in CAN Newsletter by Stéphane Los
    Ada for Automation (A4A) is a framework for designing industrial automation applications using the Ada language. It makes use of Hilscher boards and can exchange process data via CANopen.
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  • Article Feb 8 '17

    The time has come for Ada

    Published in Embedded.com by Quentin Ochem
    The author argues that the demands on modern software are becoming harder to meet with most existing programming languages, but Ada has a long track record of meeting exactly those demands.
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  • Article Dec 14 '16

    Learning from an Ada Neophyte

    Published in Electronic Design by William Wong
    One of the judges for Adacore’s “Make with Ada” competition discusses how one of the competitors fared using Ada for the first time.
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  • Article Mar 24 '16

    11 Myths about Ada

    Published in Electronic Design by Ben Brosgol
    Ben debunks 11 myths about the Ada Programming Language, starting with “Ada is dead”.
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  • Article Feb 5 '16

    AdaPilot “Sparks” Autopilot Project

    Published in Electronic Design by William Wong
    Bill Wong describes AdaPilot, a new open-source project to develop a safety-critical flight-controller system based on Ada-SPARK.
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  • Article Feb 5 '16

    Comparing Ada and C

    Published in Electronic Design by Ben Brosgol
    Ben Brosgol compares and contrasts Ada and C, and suggests when you should use each.
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