Difference between revisions of "Firmware"
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| − | Firmware is the system software residing in a non-volatile memory, typically a ROM, EPROM or today often a flash memory. There is a small number of firmware implementations in use on MIPS only however in a large number of variants. | + | Firmware is the system software residing in a non-volatile memory, typically a ROM, EPROM or today often a flash memory. What is called firmware for the MIPS systems is relatively close to what is called the BIOS for the PC sector. |
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| + | There is a small number of firmware implementations in use on MIPS only however in a large number of variants. | ||
* [[ARC]] | * [[ARC]] | ||
* [[Common Firmware Environment]] (CFE) | * [[Common Firmware Environment]] (CFE) | ||
* [[Cobalt Firmware]] | * [[Cobalt Firmware]] | ||
| + | * [[CoLo]] | ||
| + | * [[IDT_SIM|IDT/sim, IDT/boot]] | ||
| + | * [http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/software/mmon/ mmon] tiny monitor program for MIPS VR4300 | ||
* [[PMON]] | * [[PMON]] | ||
* [[PMON 2000]] | * [[PMON 2000]] | ||
| + | * [[RedBoot]] | ||
* [[U-Boot]] | * [[U-Boot]] | ||
| + | * [[YAMON]] | ||
== External Links == | == External Links == | ||
| − | * | + | * [[Wikipedia:Firmware|Firmware]] Wikipedia article on firmware |
| − | * | + | * [[Wikipedia:Flash_memory|Flash memory]] Wikipedia article on flash memory |
| + | [[category:ARC]] [[category:PMON 2000]] [[category:YAMON]] | ||
Latest revision as of 10:45, 17 August 2012
Firmware is the system software residing in a non-volatile memory, typically a ROM, EPROM or today often a flash memory. What is called firmware for the MIPS systems is relatively close to what is called the BIOS for the PC sector.
There is a small number of firmware implementations in use on MIPS only however in a large number of variants.
- ARC
- Common Firmware Environment (CFE)
- Cobalt Firmware
- CoLo
- IDT/sim, IDT/boot
- mmon tiny monitor program for MIPS VR4300
- PMON
- PMON 2000
- RedBoot
- U-Boot
- YAMON
[edit] External Links
- Firmware Wikipedia article on firmware
- Flash memory Wikipedia article on flash memory
