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    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

    In computing, firmware is software that is embedded in a hardware device. Often it is provided in flash ROMs and can be updated by an end user.

    Examples of firmware include:

    * the BIOS found in personal computers,
    * Open Firmware, used in computers from Sun Microsystems and Apple,
    * the computer program in a read-only memory (ROM) integrated circuit (A hardware configuration is usually used to represent the software.),
    * the erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM) chip, whose program may be modified by special external hardware, but not by an application program.

    Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188

    Two popular programming languages used to write firmware are C and Forth.

    Unauthorised modified firmware is sometimes used to provide functionality not intended by the manufacturer, for example to defeat the region encoding of DVD players.

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