Major European Aerospace Company Chooses GNAT Pro Ada Targeted to Wind River’s VxWorks 6.x Cert RTOS on PowerPC – Business Wire

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AdaCore, a trusted provider of software development and verification tools, today announced that Airbus Helicopters (France) has selected the GNAT Pro tool suite and the Ada programming language to develop new software components for the VSR700 prototype project. VSR700 is Airbus Helicopters tactical unmanned aerial system (UAS) designed to meet the demanding requirements of global navies and armies in the 21st century.

Airbus Helicopters selected AdaCores GNAT Pro Ada for PowerPC VxWorks 6.x/Cert based on several criteria, including ease of integration into the existing development infrastructure, the ability to develop monitoring algorithms, and the capacity to help certify the software up to DO-178C Design Assurance Level B.

We selected AdaCore and the Ada language because we believe that this technology and related tools will increase the maintainability and quality of our software and make it easier to provide some evidence for certain software certification objectives, said Matthieu Vatinet, Head of Embedded Software Products, Airbus Helicopters. The quality of AdaCores support was an important advantage, and another anticipated benefit was the ease of developing mature code.

Knowing that the Airbus Helicopters team needed to develop highly reliable and safe code for their VSR700 prototype project, we were extremely pleased that they selected Ada and AdaCore, said Jamie Ayre, Commercial Director at AdaCore. The GNAT Pro Ada tool suite offers exceptional verification abilities that will help Airbus to detect problems early in their development process when they are easiest and least costly to correct. And our support services will address any questions or issues that may arise.

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