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---# Firmware

**URL:** [https://courses.lumenlearning.com/zeliite115/chapter/reading-firmware/#:~:text=Origin%20of%20the%20term&text=It%20was%20not%20composed%20of,thus%20the%20name%20%E2%80%9Cfirmware%E2%80%9D.](https://courses.lumenlearning.com/zeliite115/chapter/reading-firmware/#:~:text=Origin%20of%20the%20term&text=It%20was%20not%20composed%20of,thus%20the%20name%20%E2%80%9Cfirmware%E2%80%9D.)

Firmware Origin of the term It was not composed of CPU machine instructions, but of lower-level microcode involved in the implementation of machine instructions. It existed on the boundary between hardware and software; thus the name “firmware”.


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