HARDWARE WITH EMBEDDED FIRMWARE

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ARRAYPRO SMART STORAGE SYSTEMS, INC. 2600 West Geronimo Place, Build Suite 140 Chandler AZ 85224 Hardware with embedded firmware for reading and writing to storage devices, namely, to hard disks and solid-state disks;ARRAY PRO;
ARRAYPRO Adtron Corporation 3710 E. University Drive Suite 5 Phoenix AZ 85034 Hardware with embedded firmware for reading and writing to storage devices, namely, to hard disks and solid-state disks;ARRAY PRO;
 

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Technical Examples
  1. A hardware/firmware layer comprising a Device Manager, an Information Manager, a Memory Manager, and a Process Manager contained in one or more semiconductor chips is disclosed. The hardware/firmware layer eliminates the need for an operating system. Each of the Managers comprises a microcontroller associated with a firmware embedded in ROM or Flash memory that contains instruction sets that cause the microcontroller to provide a designated task of device management, information management, memory management and process management. In another aspect of the invention, devices connected to the computer system are "smart devices," each device having a device microcontroller and embedded device drivers in a ROM or Flash memory. The hardware/firmware of the present invention does not need to search for available devices, provide diagnostic tests or obtain device drivers to communicate with the devices. Instead, the device microcontroller uses the embedded device driver to perform configuration and self diagnostic test as well as device operations. If the device is operational, the device microcontroller sends an identification signal to the hardware/firmware layer of the present to indicate availability of the device.