Phoenix Technologies, Ltd.

Phoenix Technologies is the global leader in system-enabling software solutions for PCs and connected digital devices. Phoenix software solutions enable the world's leading embedded systems manufacturers and PC OEMs to quickly and reliably design, develop, and deploy new and innovative product designs. Phoenix's flagship BIOS software has set the standard for compatibility, interconnectivity, and manageability in traditional PC market segments desktop, notebook and server categories. And beyond the PC, Phoenix is helping to shape and define the embedded market.

Platform Solutions for the Embedded Market
Like in the traditional PC platform, the Phoenix BIOS has become the foundation for a wide range of emerging embedded application devices such as Set Top Boxes, Routers, Point-of-Sale [POS] terminals, Internet Appliances, and Single Board Computers [SBCs] used for telecomm and industrial control. As the PC architecture has become increasingly more pervasive and accepted in the embedded market, companies designing embedded systems have come to rely upon the Phoenix BIOS as the foundation for these new and innovative designs.

Meeting the Specific Requirements of the Embedded Market
Beyond BIOS and platform enabling, Phoenix provides a range of platform enhancement solutions designed to meet the demands of specific embedded market segments, including remote management, power management, security, as well as Internet connectivity. Phoenix's worldwide engineering team and their channel partners offer extensive technology experience that can also be leveraged to develop a custom solution to meet the needs of a particular product design feature or market requirements.

Support for Embedded Technology
Phoenix has formed alliances with many of the industry leaders in the embedded market. These relationships provide early access to emerging technologies and products, and allow Phoenix to offer support via its BIOS products and related software solutions. Phoenix BIOS supports most popular chipsets and the embedded processors from AMD, Intel, Motorola, National Semiconductor, and VIA, and embedded OSs such as Embedded Windows NT, UNIX, Linux, and RTOSs like QNX, VxWorks, and others.

The Phoenix Embedded Advantage
Phoenix's system-enabling software solutions are market proven, and provide a significant time-to-market advantage, allow for product differentiation, improve design reliability, and reduce development costs.