because firmware can never be erased because firmware can never be erased
firmware is a technical name of computer and its accessories like window is a software and the harddisk that stored on computer is firmware.
Firmware is the combination of persistent memory and program code and data stored in it. Typical examples of devices containing firmware are traffic lights, consumer appliances, digital watches, computers, computer peripherals, mobile phones, and digital cameras. The firmware contained in these devices provides the control program for the device. Firmware is held in non-volatile memory devices such as ROM, EPROM, or flash memory.
Programs stored on ROM chips are called firmware. The motherboard stores the keyboard controller support program on the ROM chip.
KTSs evolved from wired logic and electromechanical operation to stored program or firmware control
Firmware
The invention of software (aka computer programs) was just one part of the invention of the stored program computer in the 1940s. Without it a stored program computer is no more than a very complex and expensive electrical heater!
No, firmware is just software stored in read only memory(ROM) and must be fetched and executed by the central processing unit (CPU) like any other software. Firmware has the advantage that it will always be loaded on the computer even after power was turned off and back on, but has the disadvantage that it cannot be updated or corrected when problems are found because ROM cannot be written to.
Portable Software is used.
Portable Software is used.
Hardware is the mechanical components of a computer including physical RAM chips, CPU, Motherboard, disc drives.Software is the program material, stored on and used by the computer as instructions and data. Generally it can be copied, transferred and manipulated easily.Firmware is software that has been permanently stored on a computer memory chip. Generally the only way of transferring this data, is by moving the chip it is stored on. So you can 'plug in' new data.
A device driver is software that allows the operating system to communicate with hardware devices. While drivers can be stored in firmware, they are often installed on the operating system itself and can be updated independently. Firmware typically refers to low-level software programmed into hardware components, while device drivers serve as a bridge between the OS and the hardware. Therefore, not all device drivers are embedded in firmware, but some can be part of it.
The hard in computer hardware refers to a physical machine. Software is a program that is stored or running on that machine.