Criteria for Constructing and Using an Ada Embedded System Testbed

. The purpose of this report is to list some of the criteria used in five aspects of the project: the hardware configuration, the software configuration, the real-time application, the Ada real-time experiments, and the benchmarking and instrumentation techniques. Each criterion will include a rationale. Each of the criteria listed in this report will be categorized as either essential, highly desirable, or desirable. 1. Introduction The Ada Embedded Systems Testbed (AEST) Project was initiated in October 1986 and will be continued in 1987-88. The purpose of the AEST Project is to investigate some of the critical issues in using Ada for real-time embedded applications, particularly the extent and quality of the run-time support facility provided by Ada implementations. The Ada run-time is an execution environment that provides services such as process management, storage management, and exception handling for supporting the execution of Ada programs. These services were, in the past, ..