CHAPTER 1
Introduction
If you can fix a hardware bug in firmware, it’s not a bug but a documentation issue.
—An anonymous hardware manager
What Is Embedded Firmware?
Since you are reading this book, you must have some understanding of what the words embedded and firmware mean in the context of computer technology. There are quite a few interesting discussions on the Web about the difference between firmware engineers and embedded engineers. Some say that an embedded engineer is a software engineer turning into a hardware engineer, and a firmware engineer is a hardware engineer turning into a software engineer. There is some truth to this because ...
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