Embedded bootloaders: MCU, Linux and FPGA approaches compared

The bootloader is invisible when everything works and painfully visible when an update fails in the field. This is an English DEV.to draft based on a Silicon LogiX technical article. The canonical source is linked at the end. Why it matters A bootloader decides what the device can recover from: corrupted firmware, interrupted updates, invalid images or hardware state problems. Its design is different across MCUs, Linux systems and FPGA platforms, but the reliability goal is the same. Architectur