As part of our 30 years of AdaCore celebrations, we spoke to some of our founders to discover the stories that built what we are so proud of today.Ed Schonberg and Richard Kenner share some memories.
At AdaCore, we’re in the business of supporting people who develop high-integrity software, in particular for embedded systems. In terms of programming languages, this means supporting the most commonly found candidates, which in 2024 include C/C++, Ada/SPARK, and Rust. If you’ve already made your decision, we will support you. However, in a number of situations, people ask us: “What should we do? What’s the best out there?”. While it’s difficult to give a one-size-fits-all answer, there are some strategic elements to consider.
Learn more about Silvère To-Sah-Be-Nza's journey from Engineering graduate to working with software engineering customers in the field
As part of the AdaCore GNAT Academic Program, Capstones offers senior higher education students the opportunity to take on challenging and exciting engineering projects within a high-integrity technology and culture framework.As we begin a new academic year, with everyone back and ready to face new challenges, it’s the perfect time to reflect on the high-quality projects completed over the past year.
GNAT Pro Assurance customers have access to a special variant of GNATcheck called GNATkp (GNAT Known Problems detector). This tool is packaged with rules designed to detect Ada constructs affected by known problems in compiler releases.
In April 2024 a streamer named Tsoding developed a video game from start to finish in Ada in 20 days. He seemed to have enjoyed the experience, to the point where he says that Ada will be the next trendy programming language for game development. Ignoring the potential irony in the streamer’s comment, I thought let’s give Ada gamedev a little push in that direction.
I recently watched the talks from the 28th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2024), which was held in Barcelona last June.One talk that stood out was "HiRTOS: a Multicore RTOS Written in SPARK Ada" by J. German Rivera. In his presentation, he mentioned running HiRTOS on Renode, an open-source simulation and virtual development framework for complex embedded systems (https://github.com/renode/renode).
On June 25th, I attended the Rust Paris 2024 conference. Among around one hundred Rust enthusiasts and a program filled with captivating subjects and contributors, I presented (together with Thales) our vision for establishing a Rust ecosystem for certifiable embedded critical systems.
In this article, Fabien Chouteau explains the importance of secure software in the emerging telecommunications industry.
In the past few years, attacks compromising software supply chains (MITRE ATT&CK T1195) have become more prominent, with cases such as NotPeya, Target data breach, Solarwinds, … The impact of the SolarWinds attack in 2020 in the United States led to Executive Order 14028, which strongly focuses on improving the security and integrity of software supply chains. Since then, various initiatives have been started, either by governments or organizations, such as SSDF (“Secure Software Development Framework”) by NIST or the SLSA framework (“Supply Chain Levels for Software Artifacts”) by OpenSSF (2021).
AdaCore is excited to announce its participation in the SCHEME (Safety-Critical Harsh Environment Micro-processing Evolution) research project. Within SCHEME, Rolls-Royce has assembled a world-class consortium of UK industry and academia to deliver the next generation of high-integrity processing platforms for use in aerospace and other harsh environments.
Join us in Paris on Thursday, September 26th, to learn about the latest advancements in high-integrity software from our AdaCore experts.
Today we’re showcasing Ashley Gay’s career and how her skills and accomplishments have evolved from an early interest in video games to cross operating systems expertise within the domain of high-integrity software.
We're happy to announce the fourth edition of our programming awards, The Ada/SPARK Crate of the Year Award! The Alire package manager is a game changer for Ada/SPARK, so we want to use this competition to reward the people contributing to the ecosystem.
At this year's CYBERUK, AdaCore had the privilege of being part of the UKRI Digital Security by Design (DSbD) stand, demonstrating its part of Secure Avionics by Design (SAbD): CHERI Software Architecture on the Arm Prototype Morello Board.The event allowed us to display our software-oriented demonstration to a global government and industry leaders audience.
When Latitude began creating their small satellite launcher, Zephyr, they recognized the importance of selecting the correct programming language and development tools to support their efforts. They chose to work with high-integrity software experts AdaCore.Latitude, which closed a Series B funding round in January 2024, is currently preparing for Zephyr's first flight, which will occur in late 2025.In this article, Jose Ruiz, a Product Manager at AdaCore, explores two essential factors to consider when selecting secure software for your space industry projects: memory-safe languages and formal verification.
Many of our customers ask if we have a "Coding Standard" that we can provide for writing code in Ada or SPARK. The answer has typically been: "We provide GNATcheck, which you can use to create your own." While this provides a lot of flexibility and control to the end user, sometimes a developer just wants to get things up and running as quickly as possible, and a generic coding standard is all that's needed. That's why AdaCore decided to help by creating a baseline coding standard that you can use as-is, or modify to fit your needs.
Nicolas Setton, our Head of User Experience, has experienced working in multiple different AdaCore offices over his 20+ year engineering career. Find out more about Nicolas’ career at AdaCore and what it’s like to work across two different continents.
The software review is an essential part of the evidence required for certification according to DO-178C. In this blog post we reflect on the objectives and challenges regarding DO-178C compliance.
A few days ago, someone posted a request for the Abacus Commodore 64 Ada compiler on the reddit Ada channel. After a quick look at the manual I decided to give it a try using a C64 emulator. How hard can it be?
