Intel (CS)ME, CS(TXE), CS(SPS), PMC, PHY & PCHC Firmware Repositories

Abbas · Oct 17, 2020

Intel® (CS)ME, CS(TXE), CS(SPS), PMC, PHY & PCHC:
Firmware Repositories

Last Updated: 2020-10-04

This is a collection of every Intel® Engine (CSME, CSTXE, CSSPS, ME, TXE, SPS), PMC, PHY & PCHC firmware we have found. You can use ME Analyzer to check instantly whether a firmware is already at the repository.

Note: To extract the files below you need to use programs which support RAR5 compression!

A. About Intel® Engine, PMC, PHY & PCHC Firmware Repositories

Collecting all available Intel® Engine, PMC, PHY & PCHC firmware is important for research on how the general technology works, for creating universal tools that can help people understand what firmware they use, for developers with no Intel® representative who want to experiment on a given platform, for downgrading purposes etc.

All Intel® Engine, PMC, PHY & PCHC firmware at the repository have some common attributes and are categorized based on them as follows:

Every Engine firmware version tag has a Major, Minor, Hotfix & Build number. Example: ME 8.1.40.1416 has Major 8, Minor 1, Hotfix 40 and Build 1416.
Every PMC CNP+, PHY & PCHC firmware version tag has only a Build number. Example: PMC 300.2.11.1011 has Build 1011.
The SKU of each firmware, when applicable, depends on the platform generation and is usually distinguished based on supported features (Consumer H/LP/N/V/1.5MB, Corporate H/LP/5MB etc).
The Revision is the PCH stepping of a given platform generation and is used to further categorize CSE & PMC firmware (C, D, B etc).
The Release of each firmware can be Production (PRD), Pre-Production (PRE) or ROM -Bypass (BYP). You could see these as Stable, Debug & Alpha but there's a lot more to it than that. Only Production (PRD) Engine, PMC, PHY & PCHC firmware based on Production PCH Steppings are included in these repositories.
The Type of each firmware can be Stock (RGN), Extracted (EXTR), Recovery (REC), Operational (OPR) or Update (UPD). RGN are clean/stock/unconfigured images provided by Intel® to OEMs. EXTR(-Y/N) are dirty/extracted/configured images from various SPI/BIOS . REC & OPR are used at (CS)SPS firmware. UPD are partial RGN/EXTR firmware regions which contain only ME CODE without any DATA, used only by older Intel® FWUpdate tool versions. To learn more, read Section B of Intel Management Engine: Drivers, Firmware & System Tools.

There is a certain mentality which is followed in order to structure the Intel® Engine, PMC, PHY & PCHC firmware repository properly:

Every Engine firmware filename follows the structure Major.Minor.Hotfix.Build_SKU_Revision_Release_Type and has a .bin extension. CSME 11 PCH-LP additionally has a PDM entry. Example: 11.0.0.1180_CON_LP_C_NPDM_PRD_RGN.
Every PMC CNP+ firmware filename follows the structure PCH-Name_PCH-Series.PCH-SKU.PCH-Revision.Build_SKU_Revision_Release and has a .bin extension. Example: CNP_300.2.11.1011_H_B_PRD.
Every PMC APL/BXT/GLK firmware filename follows the structure PCH-Name_Major.Minor.Hotfix.Build_SKU_Date_Release and has a .bin extension. Example: APL_0.1.0.0_B_2020-02-05_PRD.
Every PHY firmware filename follows the structure PCH-Name_PHY-SKU_Major.Minor.Hotfix.Build_Release and has a .bin extension. Example: LKF_S_10.227.203.1144_PRD.
Every PCHC firmware filename follows the structure PCH-Name_Major.Minor.Hotfix.Build_Release and has a .bin extension. Example: ICP_13.0.0.1004_PRD.
When it comes to Engine Region images (RGN/EXTR), RGN are more important that EXTR(-Y/N) and EXTR-Y are more important than EXTR-N. ME Analyzer can detect that as well.

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