Ada Resource Association

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.