AdaCore Brings Ada to Wind River Linux

AdaCore offers the industry’s leading Ada solution for Wind River’s products, including a GNAT Pro implementation for Wind River’s VxWorks real-time operating system.

Wind River Linux is the market-leading commercial grade Linux solution for embedded device development. It features an optimized run-time; a flexible, scalable build system; pre-integrated middleware packages for specific device types; an integrated development environment; and a suite of professional open source tools, adapted and extended for embedded development.

Programmers can use AdaCore and Wind River products together to develop applications that freely combine modules in Ada, C and C++, and can manipulate and analyze Ada applications through Wind River’s Linux browser and tools. Furthermore, this new implementation of GNAT Pro on Wind River Linux supports all versions of Ada (Ada 2012 / 2005 / 95 / 83) and is tightly integrated into the Wind River Workbench development environment.

“AdaCore and Wind River share many of the same goals in embedded software development: reliability, performance and portability,” explains AdaCore product manager Dr. Pat Rogers. “We’re very excited that this latest port of our technologies to Wind River Linux continues to build on our strong relationship and offers our joint customers a highly sophisticated and efficient software development process.”

“This new integration brings the Ada development community everything they need to build and support highly differentiated solutions and deploy on an industry leading commercial grade Linux solution, based on the Yocto Project open source development infrastructure, said Davide Ricci, Product Line Manager at Wind River. “With AdaCore’s long history in providing solutions for high-integrity applications such as in the aerospace and defense industry, the combination of Wind River Linux and GNAT Pro provides embedded developers with powerful capabilities during the development process of secure applications.”

GNAT Pro for Wind River Linux includes support for the Wind River Linux 4.3 platform, the PowerPC and Power PC e500v2 target platforms, and the Linux host.