System Overview
WADE-8016 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-8016 adopting the Mini-ITX form factor. The
WADE-8016 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.
Haswell is the next major architecture from Intel. The WADE-8016 supports the
latest Intel
®
Haswell processors in LGA1150 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
®
Haswell 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.
WADE-8016 is based on the Intel
®
Haswell processor and Intel
®
H81 chipset. The
Intel H81 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-8016 is the
first Portwell off-the-shelf product by Intel
®
H81 Express Chipset, it can be an
embedded solution and a good platform for customer to integrate it to the embedded
system.
WADE-8016 showcased one of Portwell upcoming motherboard for the Intel
®
Haswell processors. The WADE-8016 is based on the forthcoming Intel H81 chipset
and supports the new LGA 1150 socket (socket that will be used by Haswell
processors). This board has lots of features, including supports total 2x SATA 3
(SATA 6.0 Gbps) storage specification and supports the latest PCIe 2.0 (one
PCI-Express x16 slot) devices for double speed and bandwidth which enhances
system performance, one CF slot on board supports Portwell exclusive CFEX(SATA
interface), two long-DIMM memory slot for DDR3 SDRAM up to 16GB, support total
10 USB ports (4x rear IO by USB2.0 / 4x on board by USB2.0 / 4x on board by
USB3.0), VGA / HDMI / DVI and two Gigabit Ethernet.
