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.  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]]
-* [[IDT_SIM|IDT/sim, IDT/boot]]
-* [http://www.microcross.com/html/micromonitor.html MicroMonitor], an[http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT8516113114.html article] at LinuxDevices
-* [http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/software/mmon/ mmon] tiny monitor program for MIPS VR4300
-* [[PMON]]
-* [[PMON 2000]]
-* [[U-Boot]]
-* [[YAMON]]
 == External Links ==
 * [[Wikipedia:Firmware|Firmware]] Wikipedia article on firmware
 * [[Wikipedia:Flash_memory|Flash memory]] Wikipedia article on flash memory