Firmware

Firmware is the system software residing in a non-volatile memory, typically a ROM, EPROM or today often a flash memory. What is called firmware for the MIPS systems is relatively close to what is called the BIOS for the PC sector.

There is a small number of firmware implementations in use on MIPS only however in a large number of variants.

• ARC
• Common Firmware Environment (CFE)
• Cobalt Firmware
• CoLo
• IDT/sim, IDT/boot
• tiny monitor program for MIPS VR4300
• PMON
• PMON 2000
• RedBoot
• U-Boot
• YAMON

External Links

• Wikipedia article on firmware
• Wikipedia article on flash memory

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