Article
Sep 13 '11
Published
in EE Times Design by Ben Brosgol
Part 3 of this three-part article explains how Ada offers to help developers meet high integrity challenges in object-oriented programming .
Article
Sep 13 '11
Published
in EE Times Design by Ben Brosgol
Part 2 of this three-part article summarizes the main elements of Ada’s object-oriented programming model. This article is based on object orientation features found in versions of the language up to and including Ada 2005.
Article
Sep 13 '11
Published
in EE Times Design by Ben Brosgol
Part 1 of this three-part article reviews the basics of object-oriented programming and summarizes the challenges it presents for high-integrity programming.
Article
Sep 13 '11
Published
in Military Embedded Systems by Robert Dewar
We are used to software that dismally fails. What is surprising is that we accept this as reasonable. It is time to stand up and say we are not going to put up with this anymore. There is no excuse for junk software.
Article
Sep 13 '11
Published
in Electronic Design by Ben Brosgol and William Wong
Software is playing an expanding role in modern medical devices, raising the question of how developers, regulators, medical professionals, and patients can be confident in the devices’ reliability, safety, and security. Software- related errors in medical equipment have caused people’s deaths in the past, so the issue is not simply theoretical.
Article
Dec 3 '10
Published
in Aerospace Engineering and Manufacturing
Professors and students at Vermont Technical College are using AdaCore’s GNAT Ada development environment and Altran Praxis’ SPARK tools to implement two NASA-sponsored programs, including a CubeSat.
Article
Nov 10 '10
Published
in Electronic Design by Mike Hennell and William Wong
Static and dynamic code analysis can improve application performance, safety and reliability by identifying problems early in the development cycle if the proper tools and procedures are used from the start. Dr. Mike Hennell, founder of LDRA, spoke with me about the various aspects of these types of tools.
Article
Oct 21 '10
Published
in Military & Aerospace Electronics by Charlotte Adams
Software engineers who specialize in mission-critical applications are gearing up for the release of an update to DO-178B safety-critical software certification standard in the form of DO-178C, which accommodates modern software engineering technologies such as formal methods and object-oriented programming.
Article
Oct 18 '10
Published
in SAE International Aerospace Engineering & Manufacturing by Jean L. Broge
AdaCore’s GNAT Ada development environment and Altran Praxis’ SPARK tools are being used at Vermont Technical College during the implementation of two NASA-sponsored programs: continued work on a CubeSat and development of an Arctic Sea Ice Buoy.
Article
Sep 9 '10
Published
in VME Critical Systems by Bill StClair and Nat Hillary
With the geometric growth in software size and complexity, avionics manufacturers are losing control of project schedules and budgets. Consequently, the Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics (RTCA) hopes to address software development challenges through DO-178C – a new standard that embraces contemporary technologies and methodologies necessary to achieve these aims.
