Aptio® Documents

• Data Sheet
• Product Support

Whitepapers

• Aptio 4.x Whitepaper
• Improving BIOS Debugging Using USB 2.0 Methods

Related Documents

• Addendum - Corporate Address Change
• AMI Debug Rx: User Guide
• AMIDebug - Unified Debug Solution Suite
• Aptio 4.x Status Codes (beep/checkpoint)
• Aptio CSM Datasheet
• Aptio Fast Boot
• Aptio Support Utilities Data Sheet
• Aptio Training Datasheet
• Aptio TSE User's Guide
• Visual eBIOS (VeB) Datasheet

• Data Sheet
• Product Support
• Sales Inquiries

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

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

UEFI Links

• AMIDiag for UEFI (product description)
• Unified EFI Forum - uefi.org
• UEFI Primer @ uefi.org
• Archive of UEFI/EFI Presentations @ intel.com