Firmware - Examples

Examples

Examples of firmware include:

  • Consumer products:
    • Timing and control systems for washing machines
    • Controlling sound and video attributes, as well as the channel list, in modern TVs
    • EPROM chips used in the Eventide H-3000 series of digital music processors
  • In computers
    • The BIOS found in IBM-compatible personal computers
    • The platform code found on Itanium systems, Intel-based Mac OS X machines, and many Intel desktop boards is EFI-compliant firmware
    • Open Firmware, used in computers from Sun Microsystems, Apple, and Genesi
    • ARCS (computing), used in computers from Silicon Graphics
    • Kickstart, used in the Amiga line of computers (POST, hardware init + Plug and Play auto-configuration of peripherals, kernel, etc.)
    • RTAS (Run-Time Abstraction Services), used in computers from IBM
    • The Common Firmware Environment (CFE)

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