A case study in provisions needed in an Ada runtime to support ATF and LHX-like real-time embedded systems

Author

Roark, Chuck ; Strauser, Ron ; Powers, Richard

Author_Institution

Texas Instrum. Defense Syst. & Electron. Group, Plano, TX, USA

fYear

1988

fDate

23-27 May 1988

Firstpage

714

Abstract

Special provisions needed in an Ada runtime to support loosely coupled, distributed, real-time, embedded systems with runtime reconfiguration requirements for systems such as the Army´s Light Helicopter Experimental and the Air Force´s Advance Tactical Fighter have been studied. The investigation focused on three major areas: (1) real-time programming support, (2) distributed messaging support and (3) runtime reconfiguration support. Special provisions and well-defined Ada runtime interfaces needed to support these three areas have been determined. Tartan Laboratories collaborated with Texas Instruments on this investigation by providing the necessary special interfaces and provisions in its 1750A target Ada runtime. The requirements for and a package-level description of the special interfaces and provisions are presented, along with their use by TI

Keywords

Ada; aerospace computing; programming environments; real-time systems; ATF-like systems; Ada runtime; Advance Tactical Fighter; LHX-like real-time embedded systems; Light Helicopter Experimental; Tartan Laboratories; distributed messaging support; package-level description; real-time programming support; reconfiguration support; runtime reconfiguration requirements; special interfaces; Collaboration; Computer aided software engineering; Embedded system; Helicopters; Instruments; Laboratories; Optical coupling; Packaging; Real time systems; Runtime;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace and Electronics Conference, 1988. NAECON 1988., Proceedings of the IEEE 1988 National

Conference_Location

Dayton, OH

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NAECON.1988.195085

Filename

195085