System Overview
WADE-8011/WADE-8012 User’s Manual
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Chapter 1
System Overview
1.1 Introduction
Portwell Inc., a world-leading innovator in the Industrial PC (IPC) market and a
member of the Intel® Embedded and Communications Alliance (Intel ECA),
announced today the Portwell WADE-8011/WADE-8012 adopting the Mini-ITX
form factor. The WADE-8011/WADE-8012 of the Intel platform will provide high
performance and flexibility for functional expansion, such as Gaming, Kiosk, DS,
Medical, Defense, Industrial automation and control applications.
Sandy Bridge is the next major architecture from Intel. The WADE-8011
/WADE-8012 supports the latest Intel® Sandy Bridge processors in LGA1155
package which has memory and PCI Express controller integrated to support
2-channel DDR3 memory and PCI Express 2.0 lanes providing great graphics
performance. Intel® Sandy Bridge processor is one of the most powerful and
energy efficient CPU in the world.
Portwell have taken advantage of such technology to furnish a series of products
that can meet multiple industrial requirements such as cost-effective of CPU
performance or industrial systems.
The Intel® C206/Q67 Express Chipset continue to push innovation with an
architecture designed to deliver quality, performance, and industry-leading I/O
technologies on platforms powered by the Intel® Dual Core/Quad Core
processor.WADE-8011/WADE-8012 is based on the Intel Sandy Bridge processor
and Intel® C206/Q67 chipset. The Intel C/206/Q67 Express Chipset, when
combined with a processor from the Intel® Dual Core/Quad Core processor
family, delivers smart security, cost saving manageability, and intelligent
performance for business platforms. WADE-8011/WADE-8012 is the first
Portwell off-the-shelf product for by Intel® C206/Q67 Express Chipset, it can be
an embedded solution and a good platform for customer to integrate it to the
embedded system.
WADE-8011/WADE-8012 showcased one of Portwell upcoming motherboard for
the Intel’s Sandy Bridge processors . The WADE-8011/WADE-8012 is based on
the forthcoming Intel C206/Q67 chipset and supports the new LGA 1155
socket(socket that will be used by Sandy Bridge processors). This board has lots of
features, including supports next-generation SATA hard drives based on the new
SATA 6Gb/s storage specification. configurations for six SATA (two SATA
6.0Gbps and four 3.0 Gbps ports) connectors, allows RAID 0/1/5 and 10,
supports the latest PCIe 2.0 (one PCI-Express x16 slot) devices for double speed
and bandwidth which enhances system performance, two long-DIMM memory
