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The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected AdaCore to provide a qualified multitasking solution for spacecraft software development to support multiple ongoing and future ESA projects.

As part of this contract, AdaCore has implemented a pre-qualified version of the Ravenscar Small Footprint (SFP) library – a configurable Ada run-time library that implements the Ravenscar profile, allows customization for specific platforms and capabilities, and is suitable for qualification in different domains, particularly those in which certification or a reduced footprint is needed.

The result, a pre-qualified, multitasking runtime named Ravenscar SFP QUAL, targets Ada development on LEON2 and LEON3 boards. It is pre-qualified according to the European Cooperation for Space Standardisation’s (ECSS) Criticality Level B for software.

Code Dx, Inc., provider of an application security management solution, today announced its partnership with AdaCore. Through this partnership, Code Dx Enterprise now supports AdaCore’s CodePeer advanced static analysis tool, an automatic Ada code reviewer and validator.

AdaCore, a trusted provider of software development and verification tools for the Ada programming language, is raising its membership level in The Open Group’s Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE™) Consortium from Associate to Principal.

The GNAT Pro Ada Development Environment is available the latest version of the Wind River® VxWorks® real-time operating system (RTOS) for the ARM 64-bit processor. Other platforms will be available in the coming months.

The annual major product releases from AdaCore for GNAT Pro and other products have taken place. This brings support for new platforms, performance improvements, and functionality enhancements.

AdaCore is working with NVIDIA to implement Ada and SPARK programming languages for select security-critical firmware used for applications that demand stringent safety and security capabilities, like automated and autonomous driving.

AdaCore has joined the RISC-V Foundation, a non-profit organization chartered to standardize and promote the free and open RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) together with its hardware and software ecosystem. GNAT Pro Ada targeted to bare metal RISC-V 32- and 64-bit architectures, as well as the GNAT Community edition for bare metal RISC-V 32-bit configurations, are now available.

The aerospace company AVIO has selected the GNAT Pro Assurance Ada Development Environment, including the GNATemulator host-based target emulation tool, to implement the on-board software for AVIO’s Vega-C launch vehicle. Sponsored by the European Space Agency (ESA), this safety-critical hard real-time embedded system is the flight software that handles guidance, navigation and control for the Vega-C.

The University of Colorado’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) has selected the Ada language and AdaCore’s GNAT Pro for the ARM Cortex product for NASA’s Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory (CLARREO) Pathfinder mission. CLARREO Pathfinder will deploy a Reflected Solar spectrometer on the International Space Station (ISS) starting in 2021 that will detect the complete spectrum of radiation from the Sun reflected by Earth.

AdaCore has partnered with Blackberry to make GNAT Pro available for the Blackberry QNX operating system.