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News Release from: Aonix | Subject: ObjectAda Real-Time Raven V8.2
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 26 September 2006
Embedded Ada development targets PikeOS
Aonix and Sysgo have announced the release of ObjectAda Real-Time Raven V8.2 for Intel-based Linux platforms targeting PowerPC/PikeOS.
Aonix and Sysgo have announced the release of ObjectAda Real-Time Raven V8.2 for Intel-based Linux platforms targeting PowerPC/PikeOS ObjectAda's significantly enhanced compiler and debug technology works with PikeOS, Sysgo's real-time separation microkernel technology for safety-critical systems, to separate costly DO-178B Level A certifiable code from other portions of the application
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 27 Mar 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Aonix is pleased to be the first safety-critical Ada supplier to support PikeOS", said Gary Cato, Aonix strategic alliances manager.
"Reducing the certification cost or allowing additional functionality and complexity in safety-critical systems without dramatically increasing certification burden is now possible, thanks to the partitioning technology offered in Sysgo's PikeOS product".
"The safe code structures of ObjectAda Real-Time Raven are invaluable to safety-constrained applications", states Torsten Voegler, Marketing Manager at Sysgo.
"By combining the Aonix safety-critical development and runtime environment with our multipartition strategy, developers are empowered to build more elegant systems with standard, off-the-shelf components and still meet stringent certification requirements".
"The combination of ObjectAda Real-Time Raven and the PikeOS microkernel provides the solution many of our customers have requested".
ObjectAda Real-Time Raven for Intel/Linux targeting PowerPC/PikeOS is an embedded Ada development system that allows engineers to build applications in a Linux environment for deployment in appropriately configured partitions of PikeOS running on a PowerPC platform.
The product consists of a fully compliant ACATS 2.5 Ada 95 compiler with supporting tools including a build/bind tool, library tool and debugger, and delivered with a predefined program library which conforms to the Ravenscar profile subset of the full predefined language.
It is compatible with PikeOS 1.3 and the PowerPC OEA CPU architecture.
ObjectAda Real-Time Raven V8.2 Intel/Linux targeting PowerPC/PikeOS is immediately available to select early-adopters and is scheduled for general availability within the next few months.
Pricing for development seats is $15,000 with runtimes at $350 per target or less based on volume.
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