System Overview
WADE-8013/WADE-8014 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-8013/WADE-8014 adopting the Mini-ITX
form factor. The WADE-8013/WADE-8014 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.
Ivy Bridge is the next major architecture from Intel. The
WADE-8013/WADE-8014 supports the latest Intel® Ivy Bridge processors in
LGA1155 package which has memory and PCI Express controller integrated to
support 2-channel DDR3 memory and PCI Express 3.0 lanes providing great
graphics performance. Intel® Ivy 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.
WADE-8013/WADE-8014 is based on the Intel Ivy Bridge processor and Intel®
Q77/C216 chipset. The Intel Q77/C216 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-8013/WADE-8014 is the first Portwell off-the-shelf product for
by Intel® Q77/C216 Express Chipset, it can be an embedded solution and a good
platform for customer to integrate it to the embedded system.
WADE-8013/WADE-8014 showcased one of Portwell upcoming motherboard
for the Intel’s Ivy Bridge processors . The WADE-8013/WADE-8014 is based on
the forthcoming Intel Q77/C216 chipset and supports the new LGA 1155 socket
(socket that will be used by Ivy Bridge processors). This board has lots of features,
including supports total 4x SATA (two SATA 6.0 Gbps and two 3.0 Gbps
ports)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 DDR3 SDRAM
up to 16GB, support total 10 USB2.0 ports (4x rear IO by USB3.0 / 6x on board by
USB2.0), VGA / HDMI / DVI-D , two Gigabit Ethernet and one mini-PCIe slot
support mSATA.
