NanoBoot: A Field-Programmable Gate Array/System-on-Chip Hardware Boot Loader for IoT Devices
P. Ruiz‐de‐Clavijo, German Cano-Quiveu, J. Juan, M.J. Bellido, Julian Viejo, David Guerrero Martos, E. Ostúa · Electronics · 2024
This paper presents a new boot loader scheme for embedded devices with file system support built as a hardware module. The work focuses on improving the boot loader hardware and the possibility of carrying out a full boot-up process from the dedicated on-chip hardware, using a light file system to store an operating system kernel. To do so, the new full-hardware boot loader is integrated into two Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) System-on-Chip (SoC), capable of launching a Linux kernel from a formatted removable media.