Phoenix has developed the MicroCore Starter Kit, an innovative sales kit specially designed to enable a new wave of developers an easy transition to x86 based designs. The main benefits include:

• Bundling of BIOS source and object licenses
• Tools and training to allow quicker time to market
• Competitive price point which is affordable for all small developers

Firmware in other processor architectures (i.e., PowerPC, ARM, MIPS) often takes the form of a Board Support Package (BSP) within a kernel’s framework. The MicroCore Starter Kit is designed to ease the transition to x86 architecture by providing developers a model that is very similar to the BSP. For more information on how to purchase a MicroCore Starter Kit, contact sales@phoenix.com

What is MicroCore?
MicroCore is a product branding that extends across all Phoenix’s BIOS product lines: SecureCore™, SecureCore Tiano™ and Embedded BIOS®. It delivers an optimized, best priced solution on low cost netbooks, nettops and embedded systems based on the Intel® Atom™, VIA C7®, VIA Nano™ and AMD processors which do not offer virtualization or other advanced silicon features.

MicroCore Starter Kit Targeted at ARM® Developers converting to x86 Designs