CHAPTER 10

FIRMWARE

This chapter discusses firmware for ARM-based embedded systems. Firmware is an important part of any embedded system since it is frequently the first code to be ported and executed on a new platform. Firmware can vary from being a complete software embedded system to just a simple initialization and bootloader routine. We have divided this chapter into two sections.

The first section introduces firmware. In this section we define the term firmware and describe two popular industry standard firmware packages available for the ARM ...

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