Posts Tagged ‘firmware engineers’
The Firmware Age is Here
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?
Read MoreIoT has a Firmware Dilemma
Firmware controls the electronics which then connect our ‘things’ to the internet of ‘things’. As a result firmware will reside on, well, everything. So what’s the dilemma with the current state of Firmware?
Read MoreWhat is Firmware? And why do we care?
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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