15 September 2021 by Phillip Johnston • Last updated 14 June 2023There is often debate about what exactly firmware entails. Even embedded software can be a nebulous term, partially because we also often debate about what an embedded system is. This entry categorizes definitions that we have come across in our reading. Collected Definitions Read-Only Nature The IEEE Glossary has perhaps the most amusing definition, as they called out the confusion with the term at least as early as 1990: The combination of hardware devices and computer instructions and data that reside as read-only software on that device . . . the confusion around …
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