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Published inSep 2016

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Rashid Khan

Kajari Ghoshdastidar

Ajith Vasudevan

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Firmware is the permanent software programmed into a read-only memory of a computing device. Firmware, which is usually added at the time of manufacturing, is necessary to run user programs on the device. The firmware software provides control, monitoring, and data manipulation of devices or products. Typical examples of devices containing firmware are embedded systems such as traffic lights, consumer appliances, remote controls, digital watches, computers, computer peripherals, mobile phones, and digital cameras. The firmware contained in these devices provides low-level control for the device. Firmware code persists across power cycles (switching on and off, and back on).

Firmware is held in non-volatile memory such as ROM, EPROM, or flash memory. Most firmware can be updated. Common reasons for updating firmware include fixing bugs or adding features to the device. This is usually done by reprogramming the flash memory through a special procedure. Firmware, such as the...

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Published in: Sep 2016Publisher: ISBN-13: 9781785885297

Authors (3)

Rashid Khan

Rashid Khan is a programmer living in Bangalore. He is one of the founders of Yellow Messenger, a company that specializes in building bots for commerce. Prior to founding Yellow Messenger, he worked at EdgeVerve Systems, where he built backend systems to support IoT devices. He is an open source enthusiast and loves to experiment with new technologies. He is involved with a number of open source organizations, such as GNOME, Mono, Tomboy Notes, and Banshee and has built a Django (Python) library for Apache Spark called Django-LibSpark. His interests lie in the field of Artificial Intelligence and interfacing software with real-world objects. Apart from programming, he loves to cycle and play tennis.
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Kajari Ghoshdastidar

Kajari Ghoshdastidar got her PhD in wireless sensor networks in 2009 and has been active in IoT-related hobby project work since then. She has worked in the software industry for the last 6 years as a technology architect, software developer, and a computer scientist. She is a technology geek, takes part in hackathons, and is always exploring new technologies and electronic gadgets. She is currently part of the systems engineering team at EdgeVerve, working as a computer scientist.
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Ajith Vasudevan

Ajith Vasudevan is an electronics, computer, and IoT enthusiast who likes to apply his knowledge in these fields to make modern living easy for himself and others around him. He has a bachelor's of technology degree in electrical and electronics engineering. He was interested in automation and IoT even before the term IoT became commonplace. He designed and built an automatic overhead-tank motor operator using $1 worth of electronic parts back in 1995, which is operating at his parents home to this day. He has automated and made it simple and efficient to operate many household appliances, for example, an automatic geyser switch that turns itself off after 10 minutes, saving electricity. It can be set to switch on at any specified time or can be controlled from anywhere. Today, even his friends and neighbors use this system. Ajith has worked in the heavy electrical industry before joining his current employer, Infosys Technologies Limited, in the year 2000. He is presently a senior computer scientist at EdgeVerve Systems, a subsidiary of Infosys. At work, he enjoys programming and has done so for over a decade and a half.
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