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EADS CASA is using the GNAT Pro High-Integrity Edition to implement the data exchange and air-to-ground data links systems for the nEUROn Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) demonstrator.

AdaCore, provider of tools and expertise for the mission-critical, safety-critical, and security-critical software communities, today announced that Airbus Military has successfully certified the Airbus Military Aerial Refueling Boom System (ARBS) on the A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT). The certification was simplified by the use of the qualified GNATcheck tool to verify conformance to the software coding standard required by the ARBS project. Verification of conformance was undertaken as part of the DO-178B level A Software Verification Process.

Analox, a leader in gas-detection technology, chose LDRA’s analysis and test tools to achieve IEC 61508 compliance for a dive monitoring system and a submarine rescue vehicle. Not only did Analox improve quality and productivity with the LDRA tool suite, but costs came down too.

AdaCore announces the release of GNATemulator, an efficient and flexible emulator solution for testing embedded software applications. Based on the QEMU technology, a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer, the new GNATemulator tool allows software developers to compile code directly for their target architecture and run it on their host platform, through an approach that translates from the target object code to native instructions on the host.

Today, AdaCore announced the release of GNATcoverage, a tool that analyzes and reports program coverage. Originally developed as part of the Couverture research project, GNATcoverage performs coverage analysis on both object code — instruction and branch coverage – and Ada and C language source code – statement, decision and Modified Condition/Decision Coverage (MC/DC).

The LDRA tool suite provides assembler support for the Green Hills and GNU variants of the MIPS assembler along with C-style macro syntax. Thanks to this support, legacy applications can be fully certified to the most rigorous levels of DO-178B and FDA certification.

Most static analysis tools are operating after the fact. The SATE experience, with struggles to find all the code, recreate the compiler context, etc., illustrates how painful this can be. To achieve wide-spread usage of static analysis, it seems clear that the tools need to become more tightly integrated with the compiler. The Green Hills Double Check and the AdaCore CodePeer tools are examples of this. Ideally performing static analysis is a “one click” operation in the IDE, or just another command-line flag to the compiler and/or linker. From the user’s point of view, static analysis doesn’t want to appear as yet another tool they need to learn. It wants to appear as simply a “pickier” mode of the compiler or linker.

GPS 5.0 Integrated Development Environment brings enhanced multi-language support, more powerful source editing, and improved ease of use

In a NASA sponsered program set to launch in 2012, Vermont Technical College is contructing a CubeSat. The goal of the CubeSate Lunar Lander project is to develop a satellite to collect data from the moon and transmit the data back to Vermont.

Ada-Europe today announced “The Ada Way”. An annual student programming contest that aims to attract students and educators to Ada in a form that is both fun and instructive. Entries are now open for the 2010-11 competition and judging takes place in May next year.