The secure boot protects devices from unauthorized modification by verifying the authenticity of the boot code. Its importance is growing as society digitalizes and the number of devices on the ...

Learn about how the cutting-edge, free software Heads project detects BIOS and kernel tampering, all with keys under your control. Disclaimer: I work for Purism, and my experience with Heads began as ...

SoC booting involves initial set of operations that needs to be performed once the SoC comes out of reset. It involves the initializing of SoC resources like memory configuration, clock settings etc ...

In an increasingly connected world, online devices now reach into every facet of modern life. From automated cars to smartwatches to the phone in your pocket, the myriad of form factors and value of ...

Boot code verification in an SoC is often underestimated because it looks like “just software bring-up.” In reality, it is the first true system-level validation point where architecture, RTL, and ...

This is the USB device boot code which supports the Raspberry Pi 1A, 3A+, Compute Module, Compute Module 3, 3+ 4S, and 4, Raspberry Pi Zero and Zero 2 W. N.B. In regards to this document CM4 and CM4S ...

The modern automotive vehicle has increased exponentially in complexity since the introduction of microprocessors into vehicle architectures in the late 1960s. Initially introduced for electrically ...

On the evening of February 7, Motherboard’s Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reported that code from the secure boot-up portion of Apple’s iOS mobile operating system—referred to as iBoot—had been posted ...

Apple is well known for keeping a notoriously tight grip on the code powering its iPhones, only rarely revealing the inner workings to the public. But in a move that some Mac and iOS experts are ...