AdaCore Launches GNAT Pro for 8-bit AVR Microcontroller.UK Atomic Weapons Establishment The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) is responsible for the design, manufacture and support of warheads for the United Kingdom's nuclear deterrent. AWE plc is responsible for the day-to-day operations of AWE. selects Ada and 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 for AVR (Automatic Voltage Regulation) See voltage regulator. SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. & PARIS Paris, in Greek mythology Paris or Alexander, in Greek mythology, son of Priam and Hecuba and brother of Hector. Because it was prophesied that he would cause the destruction of Troy, Paris was abandoned on Mt. -- Embedded Systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. Conference - AdaCore, provider of the highest quality Ada tools and support, today announced availability of its GNAT Pro Ada development environment for the Atmel([R]) AVR([R]) 8-bit microcontroller. This brings the high-level language A machine-independent programming language, such as FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC, Pascal and C/C++. It lets the programmer concentrate on the logic of the problem to be solved rather than the intricacies of the machine architecture such as is required with low-level assembly languages. benefits of Ada to the embedded systems community who have requirements for low-power and small-memory devices, easing the job of developing safety-critical and high-security deeply embedded applications. The first user of GNAT Pro for AVR will be the UK's Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE). AWE is a long-standing Ada user, and GNAT Pro's support for the AVR processor will enable AWE to extend its Ada usage to new projects. GNAT Pro for AVR benefits from the features and functionalities of GNAT Pro's existing High Integrity Edition. It comes with a Zero Footprint run-time library (operating system, programming, library) run-time library - A file containing routines which are linked with a program at run time rather than at compile-time. The advantage of such dynamic linking is that only one copy of the library needs to be stored, rather than a copy being that is particularly well adapted to meet the small memory constraints of the AVR microcontroller. GNAT Pro for AVR demonstrates the suitability of the Ada programming language for safety-critical development for architectures ranging from 8-bit to 32-bit and 64-bit processors. "The industry has long been waiting for an Ada solution on 8-bit microcontrollers. GNAT Pro for AVR demonstrates AdaCore's capability to answer the needs of customers who work in highly constrained environments," said Micha[R]l Friess, Technical Sales Manager at AdaCore. "Organizations such as AWE that are using the AVR microcontroller will find a product that takes into account the increasing interest in formal methods, providing a natural fit with SPARK and Praxis High-Integrity Systems' correctness-by-construction approach." Atmel's low-power, high-performance AVR microcontroller handles demanding 8-bit applications. With a single cycle instruction RISC RISC in full Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computer architecture that uses a limited number of instructions. RISC became popular in microprocessors in the 1980s. CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. , innovative picoPower(TM)technology, and a rich feature set, the AVR architecture ensures fast code execution combined with the lowest possible power consumption. "Following an extensive evaluation, we decided to standardize on Ada as our development language of choice due to its early error detection and its support for our safety-critical, high-reliability requirements," said a spokesperson for the UK Atomic Weapons Establishment. "Since many of our projects include deeply embedded systems, GNAT Pro for AVR is an ideal solution." About GNAT Pro The GNAT Pro development environment, available on more platforms than any other Ada toolset, combines industry-leading technology with an expert support infrastructure and provides a natural solution for organizations that need to create reliable, efficient, and maintainable code. GNAT Pro is the first-to-market implementation of the Ada 2005 standard, allowing users to take advantage of the many enhancements in areas such as object-oriented programming, real-time support, and predefined libraries. At the heart of GNAT Pro is a full-featured, multi-language development environment complete with libraries, bindings, and a range of supplementary tools, including automatic documentation generator, code metric tool, code standard checker, and a unit testing framework. All GNAT Pro technology is distributed with complete source code. GNAT Pro is based on the widely used GCC GCC: see Gulf Cooperation Council. (compiler, programming) GCC - The GNU Compiler Collection, which currently contains front ends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada, as well as libraries for these languages (libstdc++, libgcj, etc). technology, is subjected to a rigorous quality assurance process, and is backed by rapid and expert support service. Pricing and Availability GNAT Pro for AVR is currently available to GNAT Pro customers. Pricing for GNAT Pro subscriptions starts at $15,000. Please contact AdaCore (info@adacore.com) for the latest information on pricing and supported configurations. About AdaCore Founded in 1994, AdaCore is the leading provider of commercial software solutions for Ada, a state-of-the-art programming language designed for large, long-lived applications where safety, security, and reliability are critical. AdaCore's flagship product is the GNAT Pro development environment, which comes with expert on-line support and is available on more platforms than any other Ada technology. AdaCore has an extensive world-wide customer base; see http://www.adacore.com/home/company/customers/ for further information. Ada and GNAT Pro see a growing usage in high-integrity and safety-certified applications, including commercial aircraft avionics, military systems, air traffic management/control, railroad systems and medical devices, and in security-sensitive domains such as financial services. 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 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 and European headquarters in Paris. www.adacore.com Atmel, AVR and picoPower are registered trademarks or trademarks of Atmel Corporation or its subsidiaries, in the US and/or other countries. All other product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies. |
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