Article
Mar 19 '14
Published
in Electronic Design by William Wong
William Wong discusses using Ada on a BeagleBone Black board, using an ARM Cortex-8 processor.
Article
Aug 4 '13
Published
in Emebedded.com by Stuart Matthews
Stuart Matthews explains how SPARK 2014 uses and extends the features of Ada 2012 for automated verification of programs.
Article
Apr 9 '13
Published
in Dr. Dobbs by Robert Dewar
This article is a tour of the new contract features in Ada 2012.
Article
Apr 9 '13
Published
in Embedded.com by Jack Ganssle
Jack Ganssle describes and discusses the McCormick, Singhoff, and Hugues book on embedded programming in Ada, suggesting that embedded programmers should read it, regardless of which language they currently use. (He calls it “new”, but it’s been around a while, having an April 2011 publication date and it’s been posted here for a while.)
Article
Feb 19 '13
Published
in Embedded.com by Bernard Cole
Embedded.com denoted one of their weekly Tech Focus issues to Ada. This is the overview article, full of links to other Ada articles (most of which have been previously featured here).
Article
Feb 14 '13
Published
in Embedded.com by Tucker Taft
Describes how Ada features, including new Ada 2012 features, make it possible to describe more of the design of a system than other languages. By describing the design in safe, high-level features, it is easier to verify that the translation of the design to code has been carried out accurately, and more of this verification can be automated.
Article
Feb 4 '13
Published
in Electronic Design by Quentin Ochem
The industrialization age of programming by contract is opening a new era in software development. Just as development techniques went from assembly to structured languages and from structured languages to object orientation, contract-based programming is providing one more abstraction to software design.
Article
Jan 31 '13
Published
in Embedded.com by Daniel Bigelow
This article on Embedded.Com explores the contract facilities of Ada 2012.