System Overview
WADE-8022 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-8022 adopting the Mini-ITX form factor. The
WADE-8022 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 mobile processors is the next major architecture from Intel
®
. The
WADE-8022 supports the latest Intel
®
Haswell mobile processors in BGA1364
package which has memory and PCI Express controller integrated to support
2-channel DDR3L memory and PCI Express 3.0 lanes providing great graphics
performance. Intel
®
Haswell mobile 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-8022 is based on the Intel
®
Haswell mobile processor with Intel
®
QM87
chipset.
The Intel
®
QM87 Express Chipset, when combined with a processor from the Intel
®
Dual Core/Quad Core mobile processor family, delivers smart security, cost saving
manageability, and Intel
®
ligent performance for business platforms. WADE-8022 is
the first Portwell off-the-shelf product for by Intel
®
QM87 Express Chipset, it can be
an embedded solution and a good platform for customer to integrate it to the
embedded system.
WADE-8022 showcased one of Portwell upcoming motherboard for the Intel
®
’s
Haswell mobile processors. The WADE-8022 is based on the forthcoming Intel
®
QM87 chipset and supports the new BGA1364 type. This board has lots of features,
including supports total 4x SATA 6.0 Gbps storage specification , allows RAID 0/1/5
and 10. supports the latest PCIe 3.0 (one PCI-Express x16 slot) devices for double
speed and bandwidth which enhances system performance, two long-DIMM
memory slot for DDR3L SDRAM up to 16GB, support total 10 USB ports (4x USB 3.0
on rear I/O, 6x USB 2.0 on board header), VGA / HDMI / DVI-D / DP / LVDS, two
Gigabit Ethernet and Dual mini-PCIe slot support mSATA and normal storage.
