12 entries tagged with #Tasking
by Allan Ascanius, Per Dalgas Jakobsen
Winning DTU RoboCup with Ada and SPARK
The Danish Technical University has a yearly RoboCup where autonomous vehicles solve a number of challenges. We participated with RoadRunner, a 3D printed robot with wheel suspension, based on the BeagleBone Blue ARM-based board and the Pixy 1 camera with custom firmware enabling real-time line detection. Code is written in Ada and formally proved correct with SPARK at Silver level.by Rob Tice
AdaFractal Part 2: Fixed Point and Floating Point Math Performance and Parallelization
In Part 1 of this blog post I discussed why I chose to implement this application using the Ada Web Server to serve the computed fractal to a web browser. In this part I will discuss a bit more about the backend of the application, the Ada part.
by Fabien Chouteau
There's a mini-RTOS in my language
The first thing that struck me when I started to learn about the Ada programing language was the tasking support. In Ada, creating tasks, synchronizing them, sharing access to resources, are part of the language
by Fabien Chouteau
Ada on the first RISC-V microcontroller
Updated July 2018
by Emmanuel Briot
New strings package in GNATCOLL
This post describes the new GNATCOLL.Strings package, and the various optimizations it performs to provide improved performance.by Jerome Guitton, Jérôme Lambourg, Joel Brobecker
Simics helps run 60 000 GNAT Pro tests in 24 hours
This post has been updated in March 2017 and was originally posted in March 2016.
by Fabien Chouteau, Arnaud Charlet, Yannick Moy
SPARK Tetris on the Arduboy
One of us got hooked on the promise of a credit-card-size programmable pocket game under the name of Arduboy and participated in its kickstarter in 2015. The kickstarter was successful (but late) and delivered the expected working board in mid 2016. Of course, the idea from the start was to program it in Ada , but this is an 8-bits AVR microcontroller (the ATmega32u4 by Atmel) not supported anymore by GNAT Pro. One solution would have been to rebuild our own GNAT compiler for 8-bit AVR from the GNAT FSF repository and use the AVR-Ada project. Another solution, which we explore in this blog post, is to use the SPARK-to-C compiler that we developed at AdaCore to turn our Ada code into C and then use the Arduino toolchain to compile for the Arduboy board.
by Piotr Trojanek
Verifying Tasking in Extended, Relaxed Style
Tasking was one of the big features introduced in the previous release of SPARK 2014. However, GNATprove only supported tasking-related constructs allowed by the Ravenscar profile. Now it also supports the more relaxed GNAT Extended Ravenscar profile.by Fabien Chouteau
Make with Ada: ARM Cortex-M CNC controller
I started this project more than a year ago. It was supposed to be the first Make with Ada project but it became the most challenging from both, the hardware and software side.
by Florian Schanda
SPARK 2014 Rationale: Variables That Are Constant
The SPARK tools now support yet another feature that allows users to better specify the intended behavior of their programs. This new feature enables users to declare that specific variables can only be updated during the elaboration of their enclosing package. Read on if you want to know more...by Tristan Gingold, Yannick Moy
Tetris in SPARK on ARM Cortex M4
Tetris is a well-known game from the 80's, which has been ported in many versions to all game platforms since then. There are even versions of Tetris written in Ada. But there was no version of Tetris written in SPARK, so we've repaired that injustice. Also, there was no version of Tetris for the Atmel SAM4S ARM processor, another injustice we've repaired.