Ada Resource Association

Today, AdaCore launched the “Make with Ada” programming competition, a contest that aims to help the embedded software community improve the quality of their code by encouraging the use of the Ada and SPARK programming languages. The competition will run from June 20 to September 30, 2016 and offers over €8000 in total prizes.

PTC today announced its first release of full 64-bit code generation capability in the PTC ® ObjectAda product line. With this release of PTC ObjectAda64 v9.2 for Windows, ObjectAda gains full 64-bit application development & execution as well as Windows 10 compatibility.

The Ada Resource Association (ARA) and Ada-Europe today announced that an update to the Ada 2012 language standard, formally known as Technical Corrigendum 1 to ISO/IEC 8652:2012, has been approved and officially published by the Geneva-based International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Comprising a variety of clarifications and minor corrections driven by implementation and user experience, the Corrigendum was developed under the auspices of Working Group ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG9, in particular by WG9’s Ada Rapporteur Group (ARG), and was issued on February 1, 2016.

The full press release can be found on our site, or on BusinessWire.

AdaCore has released a new version of its flagship GNAT Pro Ada Development Environment. GNAT Pro 7.4 incorporates new functionality, a number of performance improvements, additional platform support including several new embedded targets, and many other enhancements.

AdaCore has released a new version of its model-based development and verification toolset, QGen. QGen provides a qualifiable and customizable code generator from Simulink® and Stateflow® models to the safety-oriented programming languages SPARK (a formally analyzable Ada subset) and MISRA C. QGen 2.1 supports essentially all constructs used for modeling safety-critical control systems.

AdaCore today announced the latest release of its SPARK Pro integrated development and verification environment, bringing a sound and mathematics-based static analysis technology to the challenges of software verification for high-assurance systems. SPARK Pro 16 provides enhanced coverage of SPARK 2014 language features and now supports the Ravenscar tasking profile, thus extending the benefits of formal verification methods to a safe subset of Ada 2012 concurrent programming features. As another improvement SPARK Pro 16 can generate counterexamples to verification conditions that cannot be proved, thus making it easier for developers to find defects in the functional code or in the supplied contracts. SPARK Pro 16 also improves the handling of bitwise (modular) operations, and the product’s proof engine now includes the Z3 SMT solver.

The Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA) – the French government agency that oversees military procurements – has selected AdaCore and SQUORING Technologies to provide a graphical tool, AdaSquore, for military and civil avionics software audits. Featuring a smart dashboard that monitors the quality metrics of critical components, AdaSquore will facilitate the analysis of existing and new code in Ada and SPARK.

AdaCore’ss CodePeer static analysis tool has been adopted by Atlantic Inertial Systems Limited for usage on its digital terrain system for military transport aircraft. CodePeer CodePeer will automate parts of the DO 178B verification process of the terrain referenced navigation software.

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.

OC Systems is looking for two full-time Ada Software Engineers. The positions are in Rockville, Maryland. Visit the OCSystems jobs page for more information.