Industry and Ada: Ada Success Stories

Here is information about how Ada has been used in a variety of (mostly) non-military applications. Select a project to see the details of how Ada was used in that project.

You might also be interested to look at The "Who's Using Ada" Report. Although it wasn't updated since beginning of 1993 it still contains a lot of useful information. More up-to-date is a very concise list of interesting projects categorized by domain (draft version).

Ada in Banking and Information Systems

• Ada Used to Automate Swiss Banking System
• Ada Program Cuts Processing Time by 99.5% in Local Electric Utility Company
• Ada in the U.S. Army Standard Installation/Division Personnel Management System

Ada in Passenger Railroad Systems

• Ada in the French TGV (High-Speed Rail) System
• The TGV Control Simulator Developed In Ada
• Ada in European Railroad Signaling and Train Control
• Ada in the Paris Metro System
• Ada in the Cairo and Calcutta Metro Systems
• Ada in the Hong Kong Urban Rail System

Ada in Commercial Aviation

• Ada in European Air Traffic Control
• Ada in Airbus 340 Flight Warning System
• Ada Used for the Boeing 777 Brake Control System
• The Boeing 777 Power Management System Written In Ada

Ada in Communications Systems

• Ada in Global Positioning Satellite System
• Global Positioning of Ada (by Paul Pukite, DAINA, pukite@daina.com)
• Mobile Communication System Developed With Ada
• Ada Used for Radio Telescope Control

Ada in Biomedical Applications

• Ada Used to Develop Medical Analytical Systems
• A Biomedical Engineer's View of Ada

Ada in Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing

• Ada Used in Simulator to Qualify Citroen Assembly Robots
• Ada in a "Super-CAD" System for the Heating/Ventilation/Air Conditioning (HVAC) Industry
• Ada Used in Integrated Circuits Industrial Design
• Ada Used to Develop a Manufacturing Process Supervisor
• Ada Used for Vehicle Engine Test System
• Ada for Microsoft Windows Design Automation

Ada in Numerical Applications

• Migrating astrophysical simulations from FORTRAN to Ada

• Scientific High Performance Computing with Ada 95

  Ada 95 has been successfully used in scientific high performance computing. Code developed by Martin J. Stift is capable of synthesizing the integrated polarized spectrum of a rotating magnetic star (the so-called Oblique Rotator), and has been successfully executed in parallel on several processors of a Silicon Graphics Power Challenge XL symmetric multiprocessing server. Mr. Stift found that, for the calculation of stellar spectra over large wavelength intervals and of stellar atmospheres, the Ada tasking model is much better suited than High Performance Fortran.

Ada in the Entertainment Industry

• Editing Video Tapes and Prompting TV Talent with Ada

Some other places to find Ada usage information:

• ACM SIGAda Education Web-site - Ada success stories
• Ada Information Clearinghouse - Ada projects
• Ada Home - Ada in Industry

To the Ada-Belgium home page.

Last update: 98/03/01.