The following engineers participated in the panel discussion that was described in “Test-system development: Do everything first,” which we published in our February 2005 issue. Scot Blackford was a ...

A computer’s basic input/output system (BIOS) is a program that’s stored in nonvolatile memory such as read-only memory (ROM) or flash memory, making it firmware. The BIOS (sometimes called ROM BIOS) ...