IEEE standard for boot (initialization configuration) firmware : bus supplement for IEEE 1496 (SBus)
By: sponsor, Bus Architecture Standards Committee of the IEEE Computer Society.
Contributors: IEEE Computer Society. Bus Architecture Standards Committee.; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.; IEEE Standards Board.
Series: IEEE std -- 1275.2-1994.; IEEE std -- 1275.2-1994.
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: SBus (Computer bus) -- Standards.; Microcomputers -- Buses -- Standards.
Other titles: SBus.
Description: Firmware is the read-only-memory (ROM)-based software that controls a computer between the time it is turned on and the time the primary operating system takes control of the machine. Firmware's responsibilities include testing and initializaing the hardware, determining the hardware configuration, loading (or booting) the operating system, and providing interactive debugging facilities in case of faulty hardware or software. The core requirements and practices specified by IEEE Std 1275-1994 must be supplemented by system-specific requirements to form a complete specification for the firmware for a particular system. This standard establishes such additional requirements pertaining to the bus architecture defined by IEEE Std 1496-1993, IEEE Standard for a Chip and Module interconnect Bus:Sbus.
Notes: "IEEE Std 1275.2-1994."

"November 18, 1994"--Cover.

"Approved September 22, 1994, IEEE Standards Board."

Includes bibliographical references.