AdaCore Announces Support for Wind River's VxWorks 6.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- AdaCore, a Wind River leading Ada technology supplier, today announced that its industry-leading GNAT gnat, common name for any one of a number of small, fragile-looking two-winged flies of the suborder Nematocera, order Diptera, which includes the families Tipulidae (crane flies), Bibionidae (hairflies), Ceratopogonidae (biting midges), Chironomidae (true midges), Pro Ada development environment will support version 6 of Wind River's VxWorks(R) RTOS (1) (RealTime Operating System) An operating system designed for use in a real time computer system. See real time system, embedded system, process control and OS-9. . Developed in conjunction with Wind River, AdaCore's GNAT Pro for VxWorks 6 is targeted to the Wind River(R) General Purpose Platform on the PowerPC, from Windows, GNU/Linux and Solaris host environments. GNAT Pro is a well-established and widely used product on Wind River platforms, with several hundred customers supplied with GNAT Pro for VxWorks to date. GNAT Pro for VxWorks 6 will offer many new enhancements, including memory protection models and plug-in support for the Wind River Workbench development suite to provide a fully-integrated Ada solution. "With such a large body of customers already using GNAT Pro with VxWorks, AdaCore clearly has the field-proven experience to deliver one of the most solid Ada implementations to real-time systems Real-time systems Computer systems in which the computer is required to perform its tasks within the time restraints of some process or simultaneously with the system it is assisting. developers," said Rob Hoffman, Senior Director, Aerospace and Defense at Wind River Systems. "The new version is perfect for safety-critical and real-time embedded situations where reliability, performance and portability are absolutely required." "As a complete Ada implementation with real-time performance and functionality, GNAT Pro continues to be the natural Ada solution for the evolving capabilities of VxWorks," said Robert Dewar, President of AdaCore. "This new version marks the continuation of a successful and longstanding partnership between AdaCore and Wind River, and the most meaningful resulting benefit is the high quality and performance we jointly bring to embedded software Instructions that permanently reside in a ROM or flash memory chip. Embedded software may be immediately available to the CPU or, for faster execution, may be transferred to RAM first and then executed. developers." GNAT Pro for VxWorks 6 includes the following features: --Implementation of all versions of Ada: Ada 2005, Ada 95, Ada 83 --Support for VxWorks 6 Kernel Modules and Real-Time Processes --Mixed-language support, allowing composition of applications comprising Ada, C, and C++ --Full source-level debugger (programming, tool) source-level debugger - A debugger that shows the programmer the line or expression in the source code that resulted in a particular machine code instruction of a running program loaded in memory. --Extensive GNAT library --Ada unit testing (testing) unit testing - The type of testing where a developer (usually the one who wrote the code) proves that a code module (the "unit") meets its requirements. framework (AUnit) --Full source code for GNAT Pro --Dependable support from AdaCore About AdaCore Founded in 1994, AdaCore is the leading provider of commercial, open-source software solutions for Ada, a modern programming language designed for large, long-lived applications where reliability, efficiency and safety are absolutely critical. AdaCore's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. is GNAT Pro, the commercial-grade open-source Ada development environment, which comes with expert online support and is available on more platforms than any other Ada technology. AdaCore has customers worldwide; see http://www.adacore.com/customers.php for more information. Use of Ada and GNAT Pro continues to grow in high-integrity and safety-critical applications, including commercial and defense aircraft avionics, air traffic control, railroad systems, financial services and medical devices. AdaCore has North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. headquarters in New York and European headquarters in Paris. www.adacore.com Wind River and VxWorks are registered trademarks of Wind River Systems, Inc. All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners. |
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