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Exercise No. 35: Motherboard Development Process

Partial Solution 2

b) In the next step, the hardware design department adds peripherals. Then the same department assures if there is an existing BIOS support for the peripherals and, at the same time, finds all reference boards of the peripherals that are not available on the chipset. For the case that no BIOS support is available, the process of adding of peripherals starts all over again. Once the reference boards are found, the materials management department (module MM) contacts the manufacturers of the peripherals that are not from the chipset. As a result, the manufacturer’s information is provided. Once this is done and the BIOS support for all peripherals is available, the hardware design department continues to the next step – follow c).