A quick note: as BIOS engineers, we know that success comes from knowing and navigating through many different industry standards. We are ...
PCI-SIG Launches Webinar Series
The PCI-SIG has started a webinar series! The videos in the series are free and open to all. In a manner similar to the DMTF , the videos...
Announcing: Publication of USB4!
Quite a milestone: the USB-IF published the USB4 specification in August, 2019. From the USB-IF: Dear USB-IF members, I’m excited to a...
SMBIOS: now v3.3.0
Big news from the DMTF : SMBIOS v3.3.0 has been published. The new SMBIOS spec is available at: https://www.dmtf.org/sites/defa...
Webinar: How to Create a Secure Development Lifecycle for Firmware
Update: the recording of this webinar is now available on demand on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtWhULAkqb0 From the UEF...
“Hello World” Quick-Start with edk2-stable201908
Periodically, I've written articles describing how to setup the EDK on a system and configure it to build a basic "Hello, World...
A Roadmap to TCG's TPM Documentation
The Trusted Platform Module (TPM) found in most computers today is a device governed by the specifications of the Trusted Computing Group ...
Navigating EDK Releases
Over the years, the software development kit used for creating UEFI BIOS images has undergone many changes. This article explores how we go...
NIST SP 800-193 Platform Firmware Resiliency Guidelines
The U.S. Federal Government operates the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). NIST’s mission is to “Promote U.S. innovati...
PCI 5.0 is Here
From the PCI-SIG: PCI-SIG ® Achieves 32GT/s with New PCI Express ® 5.0 Specification The organization doubles PCI Express...
UEFI 2.8, Courtesy of Nikolaj
The UEFI Forum released the latest version of the UEFI spec, v2.8, last month. (April 2019). If you haven't downloaded it yet, you ca...
UEFI.org - Members Pages
For BIOS engineers, arguably the two most significant on-line resources are uefi.org and tianocore.org . In this post, I will summarize ...
Spring 2019 UEFI Plugfest Registration Open Now
From the UEFI Forum: Hello UEFI Forum Members, Registration now open for the Spring 2019 UEFI Plugfest on April 8-12, 2019 at th...
UEFI Forum Releases PI Spec 1.7
Some excitement: the UEFI Forum officially released the newest version of the Platform Initialization spec, PI v1.7, today, 6 Feb 2019. D...
DMTF Unveils Revamped Education Section of its Website
The DMTF , beloved standards body for many BIOS-related specifications , has recently updated the Education section of the its web site. S...