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UEFI, Tiano, and Legacy BIOS

UEFI Platform Initialization and Architecture
 A 2-day Course

All systems shipping with a desktop version of Windows 8 implement and expose the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) boot firmware and have Secure Boot activated.

This impacts you, whether you run Windows or not: Depending on the policies implemented by the OEM, you may have difficulty installing the OS of your choice, even if it is UEFI based.

Most implementations of UEFI follow the highly flexible and modular open architecture defined by the UEFI Forum's PI (Platform Initialization) Specification, based on Intel's Platform Innovation Framework for EFI, better known by its code name – Tiano. UEFI and Tiano provide developers with powerful tools for integrating new features on a platform, and test- and validation-engineers with equally powerful capabilities to do their jobs.

This course walks you through PI/Tiano's seven phases and explains how modules are discovered and dependencies are resolved as system hardware is initialized. Secure Boot, the UEFI compliant interface, CSM - the Legacy BIOS compatibility module, the pre-OS execution environment, and the hand-off to an operating system boot loader are all covered in detail. Click for detailed outline.

BIOS Essentials
2-day Demo-Intensive Course
This course focuses on the x86 PC’s traditional firmware design – Legacy BIOS and its POST (Power-On Self Test) sequence. Using actual BIOS code sequences it shows how built-in controllers are initialized, how PCI devices and functions are discovered and configured, how expansion ROMs are detected, validated and executed. The course also describes the various data tables that are created and populated during POST.

If you design, develop, test, or validate hardware or software platforms, ACPI, PCI, or firmware based expansion ROM capabilities that interact with Legacy BIOS, this course is for you!

In addition to the traditional BIOS and POST sequences the course also gives a quick overview of UEFI, the next generation firmware architecture. Click for detailed outline.

PC Architecture

Our curriculum of PC Architecture workshops and courses is designed for students with different levels of technical background and training goals. These courses are highly flexible and customizable; Our flagship PC Hardware and Software Architecture Workshop has been adapted and successfully taught to over two thousand highly skilled design engineers at Intel, HP, Dell and other leading-edge companies. Understanding that different companies and audiences have different training needs and goals allows us to create different version for our different customers. We can do the same for you!

For related courses, please see CPU Architecture and BIOS and Firmware.

PC Hardware and Software Architecture Overview
3-day Demo-Intensive Course
This course is aimed at engineers, technicians, technical managers and others who need a comprehensive, fundamental understanding of computer architecture, and of Intel- and AMD-based PCs in particular. This course provides an introduction to a wide range of computer concepts and components. Click for detailed outline.

PC Hardware and Software Architecture Workshop
4-day Hands-On Workshop
This workshop is aimed at design, validation, and test engineers and highly experienced technicians. It is based on the PC Hardware and Software Architecture Overview workshop, but focuses on design and compatibility rather than configuration and troubleshooting.  Click for detailed outline.

CPU Architecture

x86-32, Intel64 and AMD64 CPU Architectures
3-day Course
This course provides a detailed description of the latest Intel and AMD 32/64-bit processor architectures and their implementations in Core, Xeon, Athlon, Opteron, and Phenom processors. Key features and characteristics of Intel and AMD chipsets designed to support the different versions are covered as well as the details of system implementation from both a hardware and software point of view.  Click for detailed outline.

Itanium System Architecture Overview
2-day Course
Itanium Architecture, previously known as IA-64, is Intel’s entry in the 64-bit computing arena. Being one of the more recent entries in this field the Itanium  integrates concepts from several of the CPUs it is competing with, and adds the latest results from computer science research.

With its massive on-chip resources, several parallel execution pipes, and support for large, fast caches the Itanium Architecture creates opportunities and challenges for both hardware, system-level, and application-level developers. This course will bring you up-to-speed on Itanium’s architectural additions at the processor and system levels as well as the impact on software development approaches. Click for detailed outline.

Linux

Our curriculum of Linux workshops and courses has been designed to help organizations migrate all users, regardless of technical background, to this platform. Courses range from broad introductions for less technical users to narrower focus, in-depth workshops for experienced developers.

Introduction to Linux
2-day Hands-On Workshop
This workshop is aimed at the average user. It assumes no deep technical knowledge or understanding of computers and operating systems. The goal is to get students up-to-speed using a Linux-based graphical interface (KDE or GNOME) instead of Windows. Click for detailed outline.

Linux Installation, Configuration, Networking & Troubleshooting
4-day Hands-On Workshop
This workshop is aimed at Windows administrators and power users. It assumes a fundamental understanding of computers and operating systems, but little or no experience with Unix family operating systems.  Click for detailed outline.

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