In the Phase I exploratory development effort, AKM associates proposes to perform an ADA runtime support requirements analysis based on the study of a number of real-time embedded systems, as well as define a methodology for assessing the runtime support requirements for common Navy combat systems using ADA. The overall effort will consist of four steps: (l) identify the critical areas of embedded system performance where available ADA systems are expected to be deficient; (2) study the run-time support requirements of some existing embedded systems. this will be accomplished by examining the code, documentation, and execution of each embedded system, extracting a set of requirements from each system; (3) produce a requirements document classifying the studied embedded systems in terms of the relevant areas of necessary performance, which will include description of the methodology for studying a given embedded system; (4) evaluate a number of available ADA systems in terms of the run-time support requirements. Phase II follow-on efforts will include: (a) production of a set of benchmarks for testing ADA implementations to determine how well they satisfy the run-time support requirements; (b) full-scale evaluation of available ADA implementations using the developed benchmarks or formal requirements whichever are most appropriate; (c) producing a runtime-requirement profiler for use with codes written in ADA, jovial, CMS-2, Pascal, Fortran, etc. Which will automatically produce a requirements analysis for a given embedded system.
