Ada Resource Association

Consafe Logistics, the leading European supplier of warehouse management solutions, has deployed AdaCore’s GNAT Pro Ada development environment to implement mission-critical firmware within its innovative Warehouse Control Systems (WCS). The selection of GNAT Pro Ada enables Consafe Logistics to meet stringent assurance requirements, helping ensure that its systems operate reliably, safely and securely at its customers’ large and complex warehouse sites. Consafe Logistics solutions keep more than 500 warehouses in 30 countries running, delivering goods to millions of customers.

AdaCore today launched a new edition of its premier GNAT Pro Ada development toolsuite in support of the Wind River® Helix™ Virtualization Platform. GNAT Pro Ada enhances Helix Platform’s ability to consolidate mixed-criticality aerospace, defense and automotive applications onto a scalable, agile and certifiable platform.

Hitachi Rail STS (Signalling and Transportation Systems) France has selected an Ada runtime and a compiler targeting ARM processors from AdaCore for its CSD (Calculator of Available Safety) rail safety platform. Hitachi Rail STS specializes in the design of systems ensuring the safe circulation of trains on railway lines and metro networks.

Airbus Helicopters (France) has selected the GNAT Pro tool suite and the Ada programming language to develop new software components for the VSR700 prototype project. VSR700 is Airbus Helicopters’ tactical unmanned aerial system (UAS) designed to meet the demanding requirements of global navies and armies in the 21st century.

PTC has released of version 10.2 of its popular PTC® ObjectAda for Windows and PTC ObjectAda64 for Windows Ada compiler products. This new release provides complete support for Ada 2012 language features. ObjectAda for Windows and ObjectAda64 for Windows support development of native Windows 32-bit or 64-bit applications using the Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 / 2019 development tools and libraries from the Windows 10 Software Development Kit (SDK).

The 5th Annual Make It With Ada competition will run from July 31st, 2020 to January 31st, 2021. There will be $9000 in prizes.

AdaCore today announced that JTEKT, an international automotive electric power steering system manufacturing company headquartered in Japan, has adopted AdaCore’s SPARK Pro toolsuite and the GNAT Pro Common Code Generator (CCG) to aid in the development of safety-critical power steering system software.

PTC has released a new Linux/Intel64-hosted embedded Ada compiler targeting Linux on Armv8 64-bit (aarch64) processors. PTC ApexAda V5.2 Embedded for Linux/Intel64 to Linux/Arm 64-bit is the initial product offering based on a new 64-bit code generator for ApexAda for the Armv8 64-bit (aarch64) architecture. It is hosted on Intel x64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux v7.x/v8.x or the CentOS equivalent distribution.

The winning entries for the 4th annual Make It With Ada contest have been announced. The winner is John Singleton for his SmartBase IoT Adjustable Bed.

AdaCore announced that three of its signature software development/verification tools for Ada, SPARK and C have been qualified under the ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 functional safety standards. The tools are GNAT Pro, SPARK Pro, and CCG.