Ada Used for On-BoardFl,ght Control ----L~. ~ ~'-" The LanguageFora ComplexWeld : . . ~ ~ ~ ~ ,; .- ~ , .... . - . dna ~ ⢠- ~ - -" The Avionics ~ " ; ~ A ~"" ' ⢠~ - - " ~ L ~ ~. ~" ' . . Systems division of the . ~_*, J i ~ ' / , "~-r:- ~*-'~_- ~" }~'~7"x ~ "-- ..~".,- Aerospatiale, sp ecialized " 1-'i in On-board electronics, has used the Alsys Ada environment to develop the Flight Warning System (FWS) of the Airbus A340. Ada Advantages The Ada software performs the management and on screen composition of the various alarms. Originally chosen after a comparison with C and PL/M which proved r.hat it provides the fastest execution speed to the application, Ada increasingly demonstrated its many other advantages during the development period. The engineering team was composed of ten people at the peak periods and developed 100,000 lines of code. Jerome Verzat, Project Manager, states, "Ada provides quality and safety by its intrinsic features, which makes the obtaining of certifications from official organizations much more easy than with other languages". Ada's strong typing
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