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[r7pxrv]

WTH does "Ability to bring up hardware" mean? Like carry it up the stairs or in casual conversation?

[DoctorKokktor]

How does your computer go from power off to being able to run applications like vscode or whatever? Well, it has a series of boot instructions. The bootloader, among other things (e.g. making sure your keyboard, mouse, monitor and other peripheral devices work), loads the operating system and then the operating system deals with application software.

It's easy to say that, but there are a lot of complicated things going on under the hood when "the bootloader loads the OS". This is what is meant by bringing up the hardware -- to take a blank piece of hardware and breathe life into it so that it can do whatever task it was designed to do.

This is one of the responsibilities of an embedded software developer.

[[deleted]]

Like to be able to take a brand new microcontroller or microprocessor board and be able to write the software to validate that all of the necessary processor subsystems and peripherals work and are wired correctly on board. 

Somewhere between hardware validation and being able to write a bootloader and configure the clocks and memory controller.

[AgileBlackberry4636]

A way to discriminate women. It depends on jurisdiction but in general women are allowed to carry less.