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booting

Drug slang
A regional term for the intravenous injection of an abuse substance, followed by withdrawing blood into a syringe before reinjecting, as a way to wash the syringe out of residual abuse substace.

Informatics
See Boot.

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The primary shortcoming of ROM emulators is the inability to diagnose the processor to boot ROM area.

On-chip emulation for functional test and diagnosis. (Board ATE)

Both devices have 16Kbytes of boot ROM to assist in In-System Programming (ISP), as well as In-Application Programming (IAP) for updating code in the field.

United States : NXP LPC11E37H/LPC11U37H MCUs from Mouser Stretch Flexibility

Intel(R) PXA250 processor -- Intel(R) Wireless MMX technology -- SDRAM -- Boot ROM -- Intel(R) Flash Memory -- SRAM -- Touch Screen controller -- Audio CODEC -- LCD panel display -- Full function & Bluetooth UART serial port -- Secure digital memory or multi media port (SD/MMC port) -- I2C bus communications -- Eight 7 segment LED digits -- Eight discrete LEDs -- Eight discrete switches -- Two hexadecimal encoding switches -- Connectivity with real world: -- PC Card slot -- PS/2 keyboard & mouse -- LAN -- Ethernet -- Audio Line-in and out -- Serial Port

Virtio's Virtual Platform Family Now Supports Intel Wireless MMX Technology for Intel XScale Microarchitecture

The secondary Flash array can also be used to store custom start-up code which can be used in lieu of the internal DSP boot ROM allowing total flexibility.

STMicroelectronics Introduces 4-Mbit Flash System Memory for DSPs

Intel PXA250 applications processor -- SDRAM -- Boot ROM -- Flash Memory -- SRAM -- Touch Screen controller -- Audio CODEC -- LCD panel display -- Full function & Bluetooth UART serial port -- Secure digital memory or multi media port (SD/MMC port) -- I2C bus communications -- Eight 7 segment LED digits -- Eight discrete LEDs -- Eight discrete switches -- Two hexadecimal encoding switches -- Connectivity with real world: -- PC Card slot -- PS/2 keyboard & mouse -- LAN - Ethernet -- Audio Line-in and out -- Serial Port

Virtio Announces Virtual Platform Support for IBM WebSphere Everyplace Embedded software

The device provides a glueless 32-bit bus master interface for the CardBus along with a boot ROM interface.

New Fast Ethernet Controller IC Completes TDK Semiconductor Adapter Card Solution; Provides True Plug-and-Play Architecture

Boot-NIC-enabled equipment requires a standard PXE boot ROM or MBA compliant firmware.

Venturcom Unveils Boot-NIC for Windows XP Embedded; Market's Only Remote Booting and Maintenance Solution Provides Centralized Management of Embedded Systems

The independent asynchronous boot block eliminates the need for embedded or discrete boot ROM while still enabling code upgradability in the field," said Franklin.

Atmel Launches High-Density 100MHz SDRAM Interface SFlash Memory Family

SDRAM/Flash/SRAM/ROM controller -- 10Mb Ethernet MAC & PHY -- LCD controller -- MMU -- Two UARTs -- 48K of SRAM -- Infrared Interface -- On chip boot ROM -- 8Kbytes of Cache -- Real-Time Clock

New Hardware and SIP Software Solution From Cirrus Logic Sets New VoIP Phone Price/Performance Standards

During the second quarter, boot capability will be added, allowing the DiskOnChip 2000 TSOP to function as a start-up disk and replace the system's Boot ROM, thus saving cost and board space.