NEW YORK –Software specialist AdaCore in New York is working with NVIDIA Corp. in Santa Clara, Calif., to implement the Ada and SPARK programming languages for security- and safety-critical firmware in applications like avionics and self-driving cars.
Some NVIDIA system-on-a-chip product lines will migrate to a new architecture using the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA). Also, NVIDIA plans to upgrade security-critical firmware software, rewriting it from C to Ada and SPARK.
Both moves are intended to increase verification efficiencies to achieve compliance with the functional safety standard ISO-26262.
The Ada and SPARK programming languages are designed to help meet stringent software requirements for safety and security. The Ada programming language has built-in features that detect code defects early in the software life cycle.
The SPARK language -- a restricted set of Ada features designed to perform a formal mathematical proof -- increases the certainty of catching defects early that might not have been detected otherwise.
SPARK facilitates static analysis that formally can demonstrate properties of the safety-critical code, ranging from correct data flows and absence of run-time errors such as overflow, to more advanced assertions and satisfaction of functional requirements.
For more information contact AdaCore online at www.adacore.com or NVIDIA at www.nvidia.com/en-us.
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