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  • Blog Dec 10 '13

    Happy Birthday, Ada!

    by brukardt

    Ada (the woman) was born on this date in 1815.

    Ada (the language) was born on this date in 1980.

    Ada 2012, the latest update of the language, was born on this date last year.

    Thanks to Jeff Carter for the reminder.

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  • Press Release Nov 19 '13

    AdaCore and Altran Toolsets Help Launch CubeSat into Orbit

    Posted by AdaCore, Altran

    NEW YORK, PARIS, & BATH, United Kingdom–Today, AdaCore and Altran announced a new space application for the GNAT Pro technology and SPARK language toolset, with the successful launch of Vermont Technical College’s Lunar CubeSat. The tiny satellite, measuring only 10 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm and weighing 1.1 kg, was launched into a 500 km earth orbit, where it will remain for about three years to test the systems that will be used for the eventual lunar mission. The CubeSat project is part of NASA’s ELaNa IV program (Educational Launch of Nano-satellites).

    The CubeSat’s navigation and control software was developed in SPARK/Ada using AdaCore’s GNAT Programming Studio (GPS) IDE and GNAT Pro compiler and exploiting Altran’s SPARK toolset to prove the absence of run-time errors. The software was developed at Vermont Technical College by a team of undergraduate students under the direction of Dr. Peter Chapin. Although they had no previous knowledge of SPARK or Ada, the students came up to speed quickly and were able to take advantage of SPARK’s various annotations to produce robust code.

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  • Press Release Nov 12 '13

    Ada 2012 Language Rationale Published

    Posted by Ada Europe, ARA
    PITTSBURGH, Pa., November 12, 2013 – Today at ACM SIGAda’s HILT 2013 (High Integrity Language Technology) Conference, the Ada Resource Association (ARA) and Ada-Europe announced the publication of the Ada 2012 Rationale and its free availability for downloading. Sponsored in part by Ada-Europe, the Ada Resource Association, and AdaCore, the Ada 2012 Rationale was written by longtime Ada authority John Barnes. It summarizes the new Ada 2012 features, shows examples of their use, describes compatibility with earlier versions of the language standard, and explains the reasons behind critical language design decisions. This new Rationale will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in learning the innovations introduced by the Ada 2012 standard.

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  • Press Release Nov 12 '13

    AdaCore Releases Major New Version of GNAT Programming Studio

    Posted by AdaCore

    PITTSBURGH, Pa., NEW YORK and PARIS, November 12, 2013 – ACM SIGAda HILT Conference – AdaCore today announced the release of the GPS 6.0 graphical Integrated Development Environment (IDE), a major upgrade with a significantly revised and cleaner user interface that eases program navigation and editing. With this new version of the GNAT Programming Studio, developers can take advantage of more space for editing and a number of design changes that bring program-related information within easy reach. The revised look and feel is supported by a new relational database at the heart of the GPS engine, making code navigation much more efficient. The principles underlying the GPS 6.0 revision help the IDE achieve its main goal: to serve as a customizable platform for multi-language, multi-tool integration, usable by developers at all experience levels.

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  • Press Release Sep 25 '13

    AdaCore Launches Free, Online Ada Educational Resource for the Software Development Community

    Posted by AdaCore
    AdaCore has launched a new, free, web-based resource center called AdaCore University at university.adacore.com. The new website offers pre-recorded courses and other learning materials for anyone interested in learning about, or how to program in, the Ada programming language.
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  • Article Aug 4 '13

    SPARK 2014: Why I am backing a predictable winner

    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.
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    Tags Ada 2012SafetySecuritySPARKStatic Analysis
  • Press Release Jul 3 '13

    AdaCore Brings Ada to Wind River Linux

    Posted by AdaCore
    The GNAT Pro Ada development environment is now available for the Wind River Linux platform. This new implementation brings the Ada language’s reliability benefits to the increasingly popular Wind River Linux system. AdaCore offers the industry’s leading Ada solution for Wind River’s products, including a GNAT Pro implementation for Wind River’s VxWorks® real-time operating system (RTOS).
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  • Article Jun 3 '13

    Developing Secure Code Using SPARK

    Published in Embedded.com by Ben Brosgol
    This two-part article discusses the benefits of developing code with automated static analysis, and then shows examples of doing so, using SPARK.
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    Tags Formal VerificationSPARKStatic Analysis
  • Press Release May 29 '13

    AdaCore Announces Successful Completion of Project Hi-Lite

    Posted by AdaCore, Altran
    AdaCore and its research partners today announced the successful completion of Project Hi-Lite, a three-year, €3.9 million effort aimed at popularizing formal methods in the development of high integrity software by combining formal verification and testing. Hi-Lite took advantage of Airbus’ decade-long experience using formal verification methods to create high integrity systems, and leveraged the powerful industrial tools already developed by the project partners. The work was sponsored by the French Government and the General Council of the Département of Essonne and was conducted by a partnership comprising AdaCore, Altran, Astrium Space Transportation, CEA List, INRIA Toccata and Thales Communications. Hi-Lite’s main goal was to make formal verification faster and easier to use across large, multi-language projects that need to meet safety certification criteria, and the project has successfully achieved this objective. “Hi-Lite has allowed us to take advanced program proving technology that was developed in academia and adapt it for industrial use,” said Yannick Moy, Hi-Lite Project Manager at AdaCore. “The project has shown that formal verification can complement testing and play a prominent and practical role in verifying critical software.”
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  • Press Release Apr 23 '13

    AdaCore Releases Major New Version of CodePeer Static Analysis Tool

    Posted by AdaCore
    CodePeer is an advanced static analysis tool helps developers detect potential run-time and logic errors in Ada programs. CodePeer 2.2 brings users an extra level of flexibility through interfaces to Eclipse, spreadsheets, full HTML capabilities, as well as solutions for the full range of Ada projects, including those with requirements for the highest levels of integrity and certification, and systems with large and complex code bases.
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