Acronym Soup: What is OpROM?

Acronym Soup: What is OpROM?

In today’s “Acronym Soup” blog post, we ask another BIOS-related question: what is OpROM? OpROM is short for Option ROM, and is firmware run by UEFI Firmware (FW) during platform initialization. OpROMs are usually stored on a plug-in card, though they can be stored...
Acronym Soup: What is DXE?

Acronym Soup: What is DXE?

In today’s “Acronym Soup” blog post, we will be taking a peek into one of the phases a system goes through during power on and ask the question: What is DXE? The acronym DXE stands for Driver eXecution Environment and begins after the Pre-EFI Initialization (PEI)...
Acronym Soup: What is VeB?

Acronym Soup: What is VeB?

For today’s acronym soup, we’re serving you some hot VeB acronym soup and giving you some details about what VeB is and what VeB is used for. What does VeB stand for? VeB stands for Visual eBIOS. What is VeB/what does it do? First introduced in 2001,...
EC Use Cases

EC Use Cases

Recently we covered the basics of one of our acronyms from our Acronym Soup: EC. If you remember the blog post, you will know that EC stands for embedded controllers, which are microcontrollers located on the motherboard. Embedded controllers serve many purposes when...