Rational Ada Embedded Developer Enterprise Edition

Advanced integrated development for Ada applications in embedded target environments

IBM® Rational® Ada Embedded Developer Enterprise Edition is an advanced integrated development environment for Ada/C/ C++ development in embedded target environments. Powered by IBM Rational Apex integrated development software, it combines the host environment with industry-leading embedded technology for host-target development of real-time embedded systems. Rational Ada Embedded Developer Enterprise Edition includes IBM Rational TestMate® and IBM Rational Rose®. It supports the Sun SPARC Solaris, Intel i386 Solaris, and Linux® operating systems, and targets the IBM PowerPC® architecture for embedded development.

Rational Ada Embedded Developer Enterprise Edition is designed with the best practices of large-scale modern software engineering.

Integrated development environment— supports the full development lifecycle and includes visual modeling capabilities with Rational Rose for Ada and C++.
Architecture-based design—allows you to create larger subsystems for developing and managing large-scale applications.
Integrated host platform testing—makes frequent testing easier, which improves agility and time to market.
Incremental compilation and fast-path recording—helps dramatically reduce system build times.
Integrated configuration management—includes tools for managing target hardware assets and for analyzing and profiling performance.
Embedded add-ons—includes embedded add-ons for improved performance and productivity.

Integrated development environment

Improves programmer efficiency with a complete, integrated toolset for development, testing, configuration and task management.
Extends host-based development tools to work directly on the target execution platform, resulting in less redundancy in development tools.
Supports visual modeling with IBM Rational Rose for Ada and C++.
Supports the Wind River Tornado development environment—including VxWorks real-time operating system (RTOS)—and IBM Rational Exec, the Rational all-Ada tasking environment.

Architecture-based design

Architectural control features give you the ability to create larger subsystems, supporting large-scale software reuse.
The architecture manages dependencies between source files at a higher level, which helps maintain the integrity of the application design throughout the software lifecycle.

Integrated host platform testing

Includes Rational TestMate for integrated host platform testing for Ada and C/C++.
Features support for structural testing with Rational TestMate and Modified Condition/Decision Coverage (MC/DC).
Provides iterative testing tools for more frequent testing, resulting in software problems being found and corrected sooner and more cost-effectively.

Incremental compilation and fast-path recording

Provides the ability to analyze actual code changes, which reduces the time required to rebuild an application.
Improves compilation and build times for large systems and improves generation of optimal code.
Supports embedded cross-compilation as well as native compilation.

Integrated configuration management

Manages parallel development in a way that is more transparent to developers and less intrusive to work activities.
Uses IBM Rational Summit CM for configuration management, which offers advanced tools for controlling versions and configurations.
Integrates with IBM Rational ClearCase® for additional configuration management support.

Embedded add-ons

The instruction set simulator (ISSIM) enables you to execute target code on your host system.
The Ethernet support adds networking capabilities to the Rational Apex embedded runtime environment.
The patching linker add-on helps minimize the differences between successive versions of an executable file.