US Patent 9836306 Parallelizing boot operations

The present disclosure describes apparatuses and techniques for parallelizing boot operations. In some aspects, an operation transferring a boot image from a non-volatile memory to a volatile memory is initiated prior to completion an operation validating another boot image previously-transferred into the volatile memory. This can be effective to enable transfer operations and validation operations of boot images to be performed in parallel. By so doing, delays between the transfer and validation operations can be minimized thereby reducing device boot times.