Phoenix NoteBIOS™ 4.0

Phoenix NoteBIOS 4.0™ enables OEMs to ship quality portable systems that meet their needs and ensure customer satisfaction. With its many built-in tools and features, NoteBIOS reduces deployment expenses and enhances system performance.

Phoenix NoteBIOS is based on PhoenixBIOS 4.0, the world's most modular system software product. In addition, Phoenix NoteBIOS includes many energy-saving and disk-management features that have become the industry standard for portable PCs.

PhoenixBIOS 4.0 is the base for products ranging from the smallest embedded system, to notebooks, to all types of desktops, and servers.

Options for Phoenix NoteBIOS 4.0

Advanced ACPI™

The Advanced ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) provides ASL (ACPI Source Language) code for power management and device configuration capabilities as defined in the ACPI specification developed by Microsoft, Intel and Toshiba. Advanced ACPI provides support for all ACPI features enabled by the hardware and the operating system including the features required for Microsoft Windows logo certification.

Phoenix NoteBIOS USB Floppy Boot

The Phoenix NoteBIOS USB Floppy Boot provides enumeration and configuration of USB floppy device during POST that enables the ability to boot to DOS from USB floppy drive that is connected to a system either directly or through a hub(s). Additionally USB floppy support enables the use of an USB floppy drive while in a DOS environment.

Advanced USB Boot

The Advanced USB Boot  provides enumeration and configuration of an USB CD-ROM, Zip, and Hard Disk drive during POST that enables the ability to boot to DOS from an USB CD-ROM, Zip, or Hard Disk drive that is connected to a system either directly or through a hub(s). Additionally USB CD-ROM, Zip, or Hard Disk drive support enables the use of an USB CD-ROM, Zip, or Hard Disk drive while in a DOS environment.

USB 2.0 "High-Speed" Boot  

USB 2.0 "High-Speed" Boot provides enumeration and configuration of an USB CD-ROM, CD-ROM/RW, DVD, combination CD-ROM/RW - DVD, and Hard Disk drives during POST.  It enables the ability to boot DOS from an USB mass storage device in "high-speed" mode when directly connected to USB 2.0 ROOT hub; when a "high-speed" USB 2.0 device is attached to an USB 2.0 external HUB, this device will be supported in USB 1.1 speed ( 12 Mbit/Sec).  Additionally USB 2.0 "High-Speed" Boot support enables the use of one of the above stated USB devices while in a DOS environment.

IEEE 1394 Boot 

IEEE 1394 Boot provides enumeration and configuration of a 1394 DVD, CD-ROM, Zip, and Hard Disk drives during POST that enables the ability to boot DOS or Windows 2000 from a 1394 mass storage device that is connected to a system either directly or through a hub(s).  Additionally 1394 DVD, CD-ROM, Zip, Hard Drive support enables the use of the particular 1394 device while in a DOS or Windows 2000 environment.

Phoenix NoteDock™ 4.0

A docking system consists of a portable computer and a docking station. A docking station is a hardware platform that contains devices or connectors (such as PCI or ISA slots) that require system resources such as IRQs, I/O addresses, DMA channels, or system memory when they are in use.

Portable computers that run with full Plug and Play operating systems, such as Windows 95 and later, support warm and hot docking. Warm and hot docking, however, is not supported by DOS, Microsoft Windows 3.x, Windows NT (version 4.0 or earlier), OS/2, or UNIX-based operating system.

Portable systems that power on after being connected to a docking station support the cold docking feature. Unlike warm and hot docking, systems that only support cold docking usually do not require the NoteDock 4.0 product or have any other special operating system requirements. Any cold docking requirements can usually be addressed by customizing the Phoenix NoteBIOS product.

Phoenix NoteDock 4.0, Release 2.0 product provides the following features:

• Support for Plug and Play Runtime Services Functions 3, 4, 5, and enhanced support for Functions 41h, 42h, and 43h as defined in the "Plug and Play BIOS Specification, Version 1.0A."
• An NVRAM auto-initialize mechanism for docking station information and Extended System Configuration Data (ESCD) (Runtime Services Functions 5 and 42h).
• An interface for NVRAM part implementations, including proprietary handling.
• An interface for docking chipsets, including support for special OEM controllers such as custom ASICs or FPGA packages.
• CMOS handling for docking station aware configuration support
• Conflict detection during docking to prevent ISA IDE controller conflicts.
• Swap Bay handling for bays following certain specific design requirements.

NoteBook--MultiKey Keyboard Firmware

MultiKey/XL™ (for Portables)

The MultiKey/XL is code for Notebook keyboard controllers and SIO's used as keyboard controllers. MultiKey/XL provides support for internal and external input devices and communication with the batteries. The ACPI EC (Embedded Controller) is supported if hardware permits.

NoteBook--Application Products and Development Tools