The bootloader for PIC32 devices is used to upgrade firmware on a target device without the need for an external programmer or debugger. The flowchart in Figure 3 illustrates the operation of the ...

There are a few different ways of getting firmware onto one of AVR’s ATtiny85 microcontrollers, including bootloaders that allow for firmware to be updated without the need to plug the chip into a ...

It looks like the international version of the Motorola Droid RAZR, the Motorola RAZR, will have the option for an unlocked bootloader, whilst the US version will come with a locked bootloader. The ...

Here you can learn many more interesting and useful about USB bootloaders for AVR microcontrollers. In practice, one of the most proper microcontroller programming method is using a bootloader program ...

Smartphone bootloader firmware should be secure even if the operating system is compromised. But researchers have found five flaws in major chipset vendors' code that leave the process vulnerable. The ...

There are plenty of open source operating systems available for laptop and desktop computers. But in order to run Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, or other Linux-based software on most computers, you’ll need ...

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According to researchers from the University of California at Santa Barbara, a total of six vulnerabilities were discovered in mobile bootloaders -- five of which were zero-days now confirmed by ...

Following the disclosure of a widespread buffer-flow vulnerability that could affect potentially billions of Linux and Windows-based devices, the National Security Agency issued a follow-up ...

Setting up a Raspberry Pi board has always required a second computer, which is used to flash your operating system of choice to an SD card so your Pi can boot. But ...