Blog
Jan 6 '16
Currie Colket, a long-time advocate of Ada, passed away on December 23rd. Currie was best known for his work on ASIS, leading to the ISO standardization of ASIS.
One of the original Ada proponents, in the 1980s he served as the Navy Deputy to the Ada Joint Program Office. He was extremely active in the Ada community for many years.
(Thanks to SIGAda and especially David Cook for providing this summary of Currie’s career.)
Press Release
Jan 6 '16
Altran and Jaguar Land Rover announced a strategic collaboration to develop and market a unique and ground-breaking open software platform. This platform will revolutionize traditional Electrical and Electronic (E/E) automotive architectures by bringing together cutting-edge industrial and engineering techniques with the processes, methods and tools found in the consumer electronics industry.
Article
Nov 19 '15
Published
in Electronic Design by Claire Dross
This article describes the differences between Ada and SPARK, including why one would choose one or the other.
Article
Oct 21 '15
Published
in Electronic Design by Richard Kenner
A discussion about securing communications and systems, including how Ada and SPARK can help.
Blog
Sep 3 '15
The all-new SPARK book by John McCormick and Peter Chapin, “Building High Integrity Applications with SPARK”, was recently published. The book will allow developers to master the basic concepts for building systems with SPARK 2014.
Press Release
Sep 1 '15
AdaCore today released a freely downloadable version of its GNAT GPL Ada cross-development environment for the Raspberry Pi 2 micro-PC running Embedded Linux. With this new cross-development environment, everyone can take advantage of Ada 2012’s reliability, safety and security benefits for their Raspberry Pi 2 applications.
Article
Aug 20 '15
Published
in Military Embedded Systems by Sally Cole
Once considered a DoD-only programming language, Ada continues to evolve and is increasingly being taught in universities around the globe for high-integrity applications that demand safety, security, and reliability. The language, around since the early 1980s, is now undergoing a revival of sorts in industry and in academia.
Press Release
Jul 21 '15
AdaCore’s GNAT Pro is now available for Wind River VxWorks 7. AdaCore engineers worked closely with Wind River on this new product, ensuring that it would support both single- and multi-core systems, as well as other architectures. Enhancements over previous versions include a completely reengineered open source debugger protocol and more seamless integration with Wind River Workbench, and the development environment handles both all-Ada and multi-language applications.
