Applicability of Ada tasking for avionics executives

Author

Kontak, Roger E.

Author_Institution

Hanscom US Air Force Base, MA, USA

fYear

1988

fDate

23-27 May 1988

Firstpage

739

Abstract

The author evaluated Ada tasking performance and its suitability for avionics schedulers known as executives by comparing variations of Ada executives written in JOVIAL using the existing Digital Avionics Information System. The system overhead of each model was evaluated during the running of a series of representative application tasks. The study found that Ada tasking had considerably more overhead than its JOVIAL counterpart in order to maintain precise cyclical timing. Another outcome was that several Ada compilers were unable to produce code which could be run on the MIL-STD-1750A computer. This points to the present immaturity of Ada compilers targeted toward embedded aircraft computers and confirms the need to revise standards and develop compilers to provide an efficient run-time for Ada executives

Keywords

Ada; aerospace computing; Ada compilers; Ada tasking performance; Digital Avionics Information System; JOVIAL; MIL-STD-1750A computer; avionics executives; avionics schedulers; cyclical timing; embedded aircraft computers; run-time; Aerospace electronics; Design for experiments; Embedded computing; Embedded system; Military computing; Operating systems; Programming profession; Real time systems; Software standards; Writing;

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.1988.195089

Filename

195089