hardware bring up

Hmmm, ONE question, say 20% of 6 billion potential respondents, I'd say you're looking at >= ONE BILLION answers :-)

For what it's worth, here's ONE of mine: It's about initialising a machine, from the totally off (no power etc.) state, to the point that one can start running a "meaningful" application, in other words, writing appropriate values to all relevant registers in the correct sequence, to make the machine behave as advertised.

-- Cecil

I've also seen the term used in the context of breathing life into a newly-designed PCB (or system). Often the prudent way to do that is to partially populate it, check it out, then add a bit more, check it out, etc until the whole thing is running. With a CPU card, one usually also writes some test/diagnostic stubs to assist in the process - minimal code that does just enough to initialise and test the hardware.

YMMV.

Steve

That's the way I normally use the phrase, but I've also seen it used in the context of restarting a system or device that has been powered down for a long time, for example an aircraft that's been in a museum for 10 years :)

I doubt that anyone here can speak or write the language of ancient Ur. You might do better on some newsgroup dealing with archeology.

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Taking a bit of a guess I think what Vinay was after is:-

Hardware Bring-up

The process by which a programmable system is powered up and brought to full operation of all its sub-systems, proven to be working within its published performance criteria and made ready to accept the application software.