The Firmware Age

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Firmware is the software that engineers use to control or communicate with electronics. It’s typically embedded in a device or ‘thing’. Think of it as the bridge from ‘soft’ software to ‘hard’ hardware. How did we get here?

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What is Firmware?

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The most accepted definition of firmware is something like, programming stored in ‘memory which cannot be modified during run-time.’ This kind of memory is called ‘non-volatile’ memory. It’s the opinion of the author and several other firmware engineers that this definition, although true, is lacking. It only conveys two things.

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