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These courses are designed for technical managers, engineers and high-level technicians who need to increase their knowledge about the PC's initialization and boot sequence.

If you are designing, developing, testing, or validating hardware or software platforms, ACPI, PCI, or firmware based expansion ROM capabilities that interact with firmware these courses are for you!

Note: Both these courses can be augmented with modules covering related technologies like ACPI, SMBIOS, SMBus, and/or USB enumeration.

BIOS Essentials
2-day Demo-Intensive Course
This course focuses on the PC's traditional firmware design – BIOS and its POST (Power-On Self Test) sequence. Using actual POST 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 their drivers executed. The course describes the various data tables that are created during POST.

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

Tiano & UEFI Architecture
2-day Demo-Intensive Course
Legacy BIOS is being retired on most new IA-32 and 64-bit platforms. It is being replaced by firmware producing the EFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface). Most implementations of this new firmware follow the highly flexible and modular architecture defined by the Intel Platform Innovation Framework for EFI, better known by its development code name – Tiano. UEFI and Tiano provide developers with powerful tools when adding new features on a platform, and test- and validation-engineers with equally powerful capabilities to do their jobs.

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