ADA implementation of a system controller application

Author

Benjamin, Clive L.

Author_Institution

Wright Lab., Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, USA

fYear

1992

fDate

18-22 May 1992

Firstpage

540

Abstract

The Ada Distributed Systems Evaluation Testbed (ADSET) is used to evaluate the technology approaches designed to enhance software supportability. The ADSET consists of a three-bay chassis. Each chassis contains between four and five homogeneous single-board computers (SBCs) in a minimal configuration, i.e., no resident operating system. These system-level functions are provided by a separate system controller card. The Ada language issue of relevance to this project is compiler support for low-level programming. The chassis considered contains five Motorola 68020 SBCs and a FORCE system controller card. The author discusses the implementation of these functions using the Ada language as well as the feasibility of reusing the code in other VME chassis that contain other SBCs

Keywords

Ada; aerospace test facilities; automatic test equipment; program compilers; ADSET; Ada Distributed Systems Evaluation Testbed; FORCE system controller card; VME chassis; compiler support; low-level programming; minimal configuration; single-board computers; software supportability; system controller application; system-level functions; three-bay chassis; Aerospace electronics; Application software; Clocks; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Control systems; Force control; Hardware; Microcomputers; Operating systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace and Electronics Conference, 1992. NAECON 1992., Proceedings of the IEEE 1992 National

Conference_Location

Dayton, OH

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0652-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NAECON.1992.220570

Filename

220570