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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.

Scandinavian Real Heart AB in Sweden is using a suite of AdaCore software solutions to develop reliable embedded software for its revolutionary Total Artificial Heart. Scandinavian Real Heart’s Total Artificial Heart mimics the way that the natural heart functions to save patients with heart failure, and give them a better quality of life than the alternatives that are available today. Scandinavian Real Heart is using a suite of AdaCore tools, include the GNAT Pro Ada development environment.

AdaCore has released new versions of all of their products, include GNAT Pro, SPARK Pro, and CodePeer.

AdaCore publisizes the successful completion of a research project for DENSO, Application of Formal Methods to Help Achieve Freedom from Interference. This project, conducted jointly with the University of Nagasaki, had the goal of simplifying the development of safety-critical automotive applications in an ISO 26262 context.