An electronic device comprising at least a motherboard (102) with a digital control unit (101), a plurality of resources (105, 106, 107, 108, 109), and at least one memory support (104) containing a firmware and able to hold an executable program. The firmware is able to carry out a virtualization of the resources of the electronic device, assigning virtual addresses to these resources. The executable program exchanges information or instructions with the electronic device by using these virtual addresses.