Content by Pat Rogers
Pat Rogers
Dr. Patrick Rogers has been a computing professional since 1975, primarily working on embedded real-time applications including high-fidelity flight simulators and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems controlling hazardous materials. He was director of the Ada9X Laboratory for the U.S. Air Force’s Joint Advanced Strike Technology Program, Principal Investigator in distributed systems and fault tolerance research projects using Ada for the U.S. Air Force and Army, and Associate Director for Research at the NASA Software Engineering Research Center. As a member of the Senior Technical Staff at AdaCore, he specializes in supporting real-time/embedded application developers, develops bare-board products and demonstrations, and creates training courses and presentations. He serves as Convenor of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 9, the group responsible for the Ada standard.
Ada in Practice, a New Learn Course
A new Learn course is now available, focusing on how to use the Ada language to express common idioms, both language-dependent and -independent.
Extending Priority Inheritance Beyond Protected Operations
This blog entry shows how to define protected types that extend the language-defined priority inheritance for protected actions to the statements…
New Learn Course: Introduction To Embedded Systems Programming
Task Suspension with a Timeout in Ravenscar/Jorvik
This blog entry shows how to define an abstract data type that allows tasks to block on objects of the type, waiting for resumption signals from…
An Introduction to Jorvik, the New Tasking Profile in Ada 2022
The Ada 2022 draft defines a new tasking profile named Jorvik (pronounced “Yourvick”), based directly on the standard Ravenscar profile. Jorvik…
On the Benefits of Families ... (Entry Families)
From Ada to Platinum SPARK: A Case Study for Reusable Bounded Stacks
This blog entry describes the transformation of an Ada stack ADT into a completely proven SPARK implementation that relies on static verification…
Making an RC Car with Ada and SPARK
Getting started with the Ada Drivers Library device drivers