Evaluation of a Software Design Approach (Develop a Threat Resolution Module in Ada (Trademark)
Abstract
The Vehicle Integrated Defense System (VIDS) incorporates several packages of application software written in Ada. This report describes the preliminary design and code generation of one of the critical packages, the Threat Resolution Module (TRM). The necessary logic design, table, and file creation and other tasks to implement a preliminary TRM was accomplished. All programming was written in the DOD standard Higher Order Language of Ada. Work was done on the UNISTAR 200 workstation hosting an Ada Compiler developed by TeleSoft Corporation and targeting the MC68000 microcomputer. The operating system for the software development was UNIX. This report describes the feasibility of the VIDS-DMS software design approach by discussing the three principal topics of: 1. Software algorithm design technology; 2. Code generation, edit, and debug using Ada as the PDL; and 3. Test of the preliminary TRM on a skeleton operating system (testbed). The annotated source code of the software as well as the object code for the TRM is delivered under separate cover with this report to TACOM. This data, in conjunction with the 'lessons learned' during the experimental development project form the baseline for continued development of the VIDS-DMS Feasibility Demonstration Model software. Additional keywords: Computer program documentation; Threat detection; Multispectral sensor integration.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 05, 1985
- Accession Number
- ADA155599
Entities
People
- M. T. Minogue
- R. L. Simmen
- S. J. Wersan