Aptio is AMI's next-generation BIOS firmware based on the UEFI Specifications and the Intel® Platform Innovation Framework for EFI. Aptio is specifically designed to address firmware portability and extensibility to future platforms.
Along with silicon enabling components, Aptio can be expanded using a variety of drivers, development tools, support utilities and pre-boot application solutions:
Aptio Development Applications:
- Visual eBIOS (VeB)
- AMI Debug for UEFI
Aptio Support Utilities:
- AMI Flash Utility (AFU) Suite
- Change Logo Utility - OEM splash logo management
- AMI BIOS Configuration Program (AMIBCP) - Change setup paramaters and strings in Aptio ROM images
- MMTool - Manage modules, drivers and Option ROMs in Aptio ROM images
- DMIEdit - SMBIOS data management
- AMISDE - Command line tool for exporting setup date from an Aptio ROM image
- AMISLP - Enables the insertion of Microsoft System Locked Pre-Installation (SLP) key files into the BIOS image
- AMISCE - Command line tool for simple update of NVRAM variables
- AMIUCP - Tool for customization and pre-configuration of Aptio Flash Utility (AFU)
Aptio Features:
- AMI Text Setup Environment (TSE), advanced UEFI functionality with a familiar BIOS interface
- Compatibility Support Module (CSM), providing legacy BIOS compatibility based on AMIBIOS8
- AMI PreBoot Application (PBA) environment, allowing OEM/ODM to store and execute pre-boot applications in a protected hidden partition
