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WADE-8170
Mini-ITX Board
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Version 1.0a
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  • Page 1 WADE-8170 Mini-ITX Board User's Manual Version 1.0a Copyright © Portwell, Inc., 2009. All rights reserved. All other brand names are registered trademarks of their respective owners.

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Preface Table of Contents How to Use This Manual Chapter 1 System Overview.......................1-1 1.1 Introduction..........................1-1 1.2 Check List ............................. 1-2 1.3 Product Specification ........................1-2 1.3.1 Mechanical Drawing......................1-5 1.4 System Architecture ........................1-6 Chapter 2 Hardware Configuration ...................2-1 2.1 Jumper Setting ..........................

  • Page 3: How To Use This Manual

    Portwell may make supplement or change in the products described in this document at any time. Updates to this manual, technical clarification, and answers to frequently asked questions will be shown on the following web site : http://www.portwell.com.tw/...

  • Page 4: Chapter 1 System Overview

    System Overview Chapter 1 System Overview Introduction Portwell Inc., a world-leading innovator in the Industrial PC (IPC) market and develop a new Intel® Mini-ITX board with latest Intel® platform for embedded application. Portwell WADE-8170, leading Mini-ITX adopts Intel®energy-efficient processor based on current Intel® architecture products.

  • Page 5: Check List

    System Overview Check List The WADE-8170 package should cover the following basic items One WADE-8170 Mini ITX Main Board One Serial ATA cable One I/O Shield bracket One Installation Resources CD-Title If any of these items is damaged or missing, please contact your vendor and keep all packing materials for future replacement and maintenance.
  • Page 6 170mm (6.69”) X 170mm (6.69”) Configuration: System Configuration CPU Type Intel® Atom™ CPU N270 1.60GHz FSB:533 L2:512K SBC BIOS Portwell,Inc.WADE-8170 BIOS Rev.:R1.00.W1. T06 (12252008) Memory Hynix 200-pin DDR2 533 MHz SO-DIMM VGA Card On Board Mobile Intel® 945 Express Chipset Family VGA Driver Mobile Intel®...
  • Page 7 Windows XP Professional OS Environment V2002 Service Pack 2 V2002 Service Pack 2 Normal Mode 1.46 1.01 Suspend Mode 0.25 0.64 Operating Temperature: 0°C ~ 55°C Storage Temperature: -20°C ~ 80°C Relative Humidity: 5% ~ 90%, non-condensing WADE-8170 User’s Manual...

  • Page 8: Mechanical Drawing

    System Overview 1.3.1 Mechanical Drawing WADE-8170 User’s Manual...

  • Page 9: System Architecture

    System Overview System Architecture All of details operating relations are shown in WADE-8170 series System Block Diagram WADE-8170 System Block Diagram WADE-8170 User’s Manual...

  • Page 10: Chapter 2 Hardware Configuration

    ( ). Jumper Setting In order to customize WADE-8170’s features for users, in the following sections, Short means covering a jumper cap over jumper pins; Open or N/C (Not Connected) means removing a jumper cap from jumper pins. Users can refer to Figure 2-1 for the Jumper locations.

  • Page 11: Connector Allocation

    USB 0 & 1+100/Giga LAN Connector USB 2 & 3+100/Giga LAN Connector INT. KB/MS 1 x 6 wafer Fan Power Connector 1 x 4 header 8 bits Digital I/O 2 x 5 header HDD Power Connector 1 x 4 header WADE-8170 User’s Manual...
  • Page 12 Pin Assignments of Connectors CN1 : COM1&2 RS-232 Serial Port Connector PIN No. Signal Description Data Carrier Detect Received Data Transmit Data Data Terminal Ready Ground Data Set Ready Request To Send Clear To Send Ring Indicator Not used WADE-8170 User’s Manual...
  • Page 13 Ground Ground CRT_SDA CRT_HS CRT_VS CRT_SCK TDC2# TDC2 SC_DDC SD_DDC TDC1# TDC1 DV15V DVI_DET TDC0# TDC0 TLC# CN3 : PS/2 Keyboard Mouse Connector PIN No. Signal Description Keyboard Data Ground Keyboard Clock Mouse Data Ground Mouse Clock WADE-8170 User’s Manual...
  • Page 14 LINK1 ACT1 100- 1000- CN5 : USB 2 3+100/Giga LAN Connector PIN No. Signal Description PIN No. Signal Description VCC5V USB2- USB2+ VCCV USB3- USB3+ MDI0+ MDI0- MDI1+ MDI1- MDI2+ MDI2- MDI3+ MDI3- LINK1 ACT1 100- 1000- WADE-8170 User’s Manual...
  • Page 15 Keyboard Data DUAL_5V CN7 : Fan Power Connector PIN No. Signal Description Ground +12V SENSE Control (CN3 only) CN8 : 8 bits Digital I/O PIN No. Signal Description EXT_VDD ISO_I1 ISO_O1 ISO_I2 ISO_O2 ISO_I3 ISO_O3 ISO_I4 ISO_O4 EXT_VSS WADE-8170 User’s Manual...
  • Page 16 EXT_VDD ISO_I1 ISO_O1 ISO_I2 ISO_O2 ISO_I3 ISO_O3 ISO_I4 ISO_O4 EXT_VSS CN9 : HDD Power Connector PIN No. Signal Description +12V CN10 : USB 4 & 5 Connector PIN No. Signal Description USB4- USB4+ USB5- USB5+ Ground Ground WADE-8170 User’s Manual...
  • Page 17 Hardware Configuration CN11 : LVDS Connector PIN No. Signal Description PIN No. Signal Description LVDS_DATAA0- LVDS_DATAA1- LVDS_DATAA0+ LVDS_DATAA1+ LVDS_DATAA2- LVDS_CLKA- LVDS_DATAA2+ LVDS_CLKA+ LVDS_DATAB0- LVDS_DATAB0+ LVDS_DATAB1- LVDS_DATAB2- LVDS_DATAB1+ LVDS_DATAB2+ LVDS_CLKB- LVDS_CLKB+ +12V +12V LCD_BKL_EN WADE-8170 User’s Manual...
  • Page 18 Hardware Configuration CN12 : TV Connector PIN No. Signal Description TVDAC_B TVDAC_C TVDAC_A CN13 : USB 6 & 7 Connector PIN No. Signal Description USB6- USB6+ USB7- USB7+ CN15 : HDD Power Connector PIN No. Signal Description +12V WADE-8170 User’s Manual...
  • Page 19 PDD14 PDD0 PDD15 PDDREQ PDIOW- PDIOR- PIORDY PDDACK- INTP PDA1 P66DET PDA0 PDA2 PDCS-1 PDCS-3 IDEACTP- CN18 : Front Panel System Connector PIN No. Signal Description PIN No. Signal Description RESET+ IR_CRX RESET- IR_RX SPKR IR_TX WADE-8170 User’s Manual 2-10...
  • Page 20 Signal Description PIN No. Signal Description +12V +12V AUDIO1 : Audio Connector PIN No. Signal Description 1(Blue) Line-In 2(Green) Line-Out 3 (Red) MIC-In LINEIN1 : Front Panel Line-in PIN No. Signal Description CDIN_L CDGND CDGND CDIN_R WADE-8170 User’s Manual 2-11...
  • Page 21 Hardware Configuration LINEOUT1 : Front Panel Line Out PIN No. Signal Description LOUT_L LOUT_R MIC1 : MIC Connector PIN No. Signal Description MIC1_1 CDGND CDGND MIC1_2 CN20 : HDD POWER Connector PIN No. Signal Description +12V WADE-8170 User’s Manual 2-12...

  • Page 22: Chapter 3 System Installation

    Timer (WDT) and operation of GPIO in software programming. Intel® ATOM CPU WADE-8170 onboard uses Intel Atom N270 CPU 1.6GHz processor. Introducing Intel Atom processor, a new microprocessor designed from the ground up for mobility, with a mobile-optimized chipset. Intel mobile processor innovative design techniques allow faster execution of instructions at lower power.

  • Page 23: Installing The Single Board Computer

    3.3.1 Chipset Component Driver The chipset on WADE-8170 is a new chipset that a few old operating systems might not be able to recognize. To overcome this compatibility issue, for Windows Operating Systems such as Windows 2000 /XP, please install its INF before any of other Drivers are installed.

  • Page 24: Realtek Gigabit Ethernet Controller

    System Installation Drivers Support Please find Springdale GMCH driver in the WADE-8170 CD-title. Drivers support Windows-2000, Windows XP. 3.3.3 Realtek Gigabit Ethernet Controller Drivers Support Please find Realtek RTL8111C LAN driver in /Ethernet directory of WADE-8170 CD-title. The drivers support Windows 2000 /XP.

  • Page 25: Wdt Programming Guide

    0 = WDT value is not 0 1 = WDT reaches 0 WDT is reset upon a KBC (keyboard) interrupt 0 = Disable (default) 1 = Enable WDT is reset upon a KBC (mouse) interrupt 0 = Disable (default) 1 = Enable WADE-8170 User’s Manual...
  • Page 26 BIT6 BIT5 BIT4 BIT3 BIT2 BIT1 BIT0 Attribute Read/Write Watch Dog Timer Time-out value 00h: Time-out Disable (default) 01h: Time-out occurs after 1 second/minute 02h: Time-out occurs after 2 seconds/minutes … FFh: Time-out occurs after 255 seconds/minutes WADE-8170 User’s Manual...

  • Page 27: Gpio

    O 2F 01 GPIO GPIO Programming Guide The motherboard provides 4 input / output ports that can be individually configured to perform a simple basic I/O function. GPIO Pin Assignment Signal default Signal default high high high high WADE-8170 User’s Manual...
  • Page 28 0 = Low 1 = High (default) DI3 reflects the state of the input signal 0 = Low 1 = High (default) DI4 reflects the state of the input signal 0 = Low 1 = High (default) WADE-8170 User’s Manual...
  • Page 29 = 1 then DI1 is high iret = iret & 0x01; if (iret == 0x01) {//hi} iret = inportb(0xA21); iret = iret | 0x01; Set DO1 to high bit0 = 1 for DO1 set to high outportb(0xA21, iret); WADE-8170 User’s Manual...

  • Page 30: Chapter 4 Bios Setup Information

    Chapter 4 BIOS Setup Information WADE-8170 is equipped with the AMI BIOS stored in Flash ROM. These BIOS has a built-in Setup program that allows users to modify the basic system configuration easily. This type of information is stored in CMOS RAM so that it is retained during power-off periods.

  • Page 31: Main

    These items show the firmware and hardware specifications of your system. Read only. System Time The time format is <Hour> <Minute> <Second>. Use [＋] or [－] to configure system Time. System Date The date format is <Day>, <Month> <Date> <Year>. Use [＋] or [－] to configure system Date. WADE-8170 User’s Manual...

  • Page 32: Advanced

    BIOS Setup Information Advanced Use this menu to set up the items of special enhanced features. WADE-8170 User’s Manual...
  • Page 33 The choice: Disabled, Enabled. Execute-Disable Bit capability When disabled, force the XD feature flag to always return 0 The choice: Disabled, Enabled. Hyper Threading Technology The choice: Disabled, Enabled. Intel(R) Speed Step (tm) Tech Disable: Disable GV3. Enable: Enable GV3. WADE-8170 User’s Manual...

  • Page 34: Ide Configuration

    IDE Configuration The IDE Configuration the IDE devices, such as hard disk drive or CD-ROM drive. It uses a separate sub menu to configure each hard disk drive (Master and Slave). ATA/IDE Configuration The choice: Disabled, Compatible, Enabled. WADE-8170 User’s Manual...
  • Page 35 This gives you an opportunity to move data from a hard disk that is going to fail to a safe place before the hard disk becomes offline. [32 Bit Data Transfer] Enable/Disable 32-bit Data Transfer. WADE-8170 User’s Manual...
  • Page 36 ATA(PI) 80Pin Cable Detection Select the mechanism for detecting 80Pin ATA (PI) cable. The choice: Host & Device, Host, Device. Super IO Configuration Serial Port 1 Address Allows BIOS Select Serial Port1 Base Addresses. The choice: Disabled, 3F8/IRQ4, 3E8/IRQ4, 2E8/IRQ3. WADE-8170 User’s Manual...
  • Page 37 This item allows user to configure the power status of using ATX power supply after a serious power loss occurs. The choice: Power Off, Power On, Last State. Hardware Health Configuration Configuration / monitor the Hardware Health. H/W Health Function The choice: Disabled, Enabled. WADE-8170 User’s Manual...

  • Page 38: Acpi Settings

    BIOS Setup Information ACPI Settings Select for Advanced ACPI Configuration. WADE-8170 User’s Manual...
  • Page 39 The choice: ACPI v1.0 / ACPI v2.0 / ACPI v3.0. ACPI APIC support Include ACPI APIC table pointer to RSDT pointer list. The choice: Disabled, Enabled. AMI OEMB table Include OEMB table pointer to R(X) SDT pointer list. The choice: Disabled, Enabled. WADE-8170 User’s Manual 4-10...
  • Page 40 The South Bridge ACPI related Configuration settings, Use this section to configure additional ACPI options. Energy Lake Feature Select the ACPI state used for System Suspend. The choice: Disabled, Enabled. APIC ACPI SCI IRQ Enable / Disable APIC ACPI SCI IRQ. The choice: Disabled, Enabled. WADE-8170 User’s Manual 4-11...
  • Page 41 APM Configuration Select for AHCI Configuration. Power Management/APM Enables for Power Management. The choice: Disabled, Enabled. Throttle Slow Clock Ratio The choice: 12.5%, 25%, 37.5%, 50%, 62.5%, 75%, 87.5%. Keyboard & PS/2 Mouse The choice: IGNORE, MONITOR. WADE-8170 User’s Manual 4-12...
  • Page 42 The choice: On/Off, Suspend. Resume On Ring The choice: Disabled, Enabled. Resume On LAN The choice: Disabled, Enabled. Resume On PME# The choice: Disabled, Enabled. Resume On RTC Alarm The choice: Disabled, Enabled. MPS Configuration Configure the Multi-Processor Table. WADE-8170 User’s Manual 4-13...
  • Page 43 Set to [Enabled] if you need to use any USB 1.1/2.0 device in the operating system that does not support or have any USB 1.1/2.0 driver installed, such as DOS and SCO Unix. The choice: Disabled, Enabled, Auto. Port 64/60 Hand-Off Enable I/O port 60h/64h emulation support. The choice: Disable, Enable. WADE-8170 User’s Manual 4-14...
  • Page 44 Number of seconds POST waits for the USB mass storage device after start unit command. The choice: 10 Sec, 20 Sec, 30 Sec, 40 Sec. Emulation Type The choice: Auto, Floppy, Forced FDD, Hard Disk, CDROM. WADE-8170 User’s Manual 4-15...

  • Page 45: Pcipnp

    Plug and Play operating system. The choice: No, Yes. PCI Latency Timer Select value in units of PCI clocks for PCI device latency timer register. The choice: 32, 64, 96, 128, 160, 192, 224, 248. WADE-8170 User’s Manual 4-16...

  • Page 46: Boot

    Some PCI IDE cards may require this to be set to the PCI slot number that is holding the card. AUTO: Works for most PCI IDE cards The choice: Auto, PCI Slot1, PCI Slot2, PCI Slot3, PCI Slot4, PCI Slot5, PCI Slot6. Boot Use this menu to specify the priority of boot devices. WADE-8170 User’s Manual 4-17...
  • Page 47 When it is enabled, the BIOS will display the full-screen logo during the boot-up sequence, hiding normal POST messages. When it is disabled, the BIOS will display the normal POST messages, instead of the full-screen logo. WADE-8170 User’s Manual 4-18...
  • Page 48 Hit Del if you want to run setup It will prevent the message from appearing on the first BIOS screen when the computer boots. Set it to [Enabled] when you want to run the BIOS Setup Utility. The choice: Disabled, Enabled. WADE-8170 User’s Manual 4-19...
  • Page 49 First press <Enter> to enter the sub-menu. Then you may use the arrow keys (↑↓) to select the desired device, then press <＋>, <－> or <PageUp>, <PageDown> key to move it up/down in the priority list. The choice: (Network: IBA GE Slot 00C8 v1324), Disabled. WADE-8170 User’s Manual 4-20...
  • Page 50 <Enter> to enter the sub-menu. Then you may use the arrow keys (↑↓) to select the desired device, then press <＋>, <－> or <PageUp>, <PageDown> key to move it up/down in the priority list. The choice: 1st FLOPPY DEVICE, Disabled. WADE-8170 User’s Manual 4-21...

  • Page 51: Security

    User Password / Change User Password User Password controls access to the system at boot. These settings allow you to set or change the user password. Boot Sector Virus Protection Boot Sector Virus Protection. The choice: Disabled, Enabled. WADE-8170 User’s Manual 4-22...

  • Page 52: Chipset

    BIOS Setup Information Chipset This menu controls the advanced features of the onboard Northbridge and Southbridge. WADE-8170 User’s Manual 4-23...
  • Page 53 PCI Express card. When set to [Auto], the BIOS checks to see if a PCI Express graphics card is installed. If it detects that a PCI Express graphics card is present, the motherboard boots up using that card. Otherwise, it defaults to the onboard graphics processor. The choice: Auto, Disabled. WADE-8170 User’s Manual 4-24...
  • Page 54 The key idea in DVMT is to improve the efficiency of the memory allocated to either system or graphics processor. WADE-8170 User’s Manual 4-25...
  • Page 55 The choice: Auto, Composite, Component, Composite & RGB, A-Video, SCART Composite, SCART Compos & RGB, SCART Compos & S-Video, SMPTE253 Compos. RGB. TV Standard The choice: VBIOS-Default, NTSC, PAL, SECAM, SMPTE240M, ITU-R television, SMPTE295M, SMPTE296M, EIA-770.2, EIA-770.3. WADE-8170 User’s Manual 4-26...
  • Page 56 The choice: Disabled, 2 USB Ports, 4 USB Ports, 6 USB Ports, 8 USB Ports. USB 2.0 Controller This setting specifies the function of the onboard USB control The choice: Disabled, 2 USB Ports, 4 USB Ports, 6 USB Ports, 8 USB Ports. Audio Controller The choice: Auto, Azalia, Disabled WADE-8170 User’s Manual 4-27...
  • Page 57 The choice: Auto, Enabled, Disabled. PICE High Priority Port The choice: Disable, Port 0, Port 1, Port 2, Port 3, Port 4, Port 5. PICE Port 0/1/2/3/4/5 IOxAPIC Enable The choice: Enabled, Disabled. ASF Support The choice: Enabled, Disabled. WADE-8170 User’s Manual 4-28...

  • Page 58: Exit

    Use this menu to load the default values set by the SBC manufacturer specifically for optimal performance of the SBC. Load Failsafe Defaults Use this menu to load the default values set by the BIOS vendor for stable system performance. WADE-8170 User’s Manual 4-29...

  • Page 59: Chapter 5 Troubleshooting

    Chapter 5 Troubleshooting This chapter provides a few useful tips to quickly get WADE-8170 running with success. As basic hardware installation has been addressed in Chapter 2, this chapter will primarily focus on system integration issues, in terms of BIOS setting, and OS diagnostics.

  • Page 60: Bios Setting

    BIOS setting back to the initial factory configuration. It is recommended to do this so you can be sure the system is running with the BIOS setting that Portwell has highly endorsed. As a matter of fact, users can load the default BIOS setting any time when system appears to be unstable in boot up sequence.

  • Page 61: Ordering Setting

    It is then very easy to find out which IRQ resource is ready for additional peripherals. If IRQ resource is not enough, please disable some devices listed above to release further IRQ numbers. Ordering Setting PER-4110R One slot PCI-E x1 to PCI-Ex1 WADE-8170 User’s Manual...

  • Page 62: Faq

    Please visit our technical web site at http://www.portwell.com.tw For additional technical information, which is not covered in this manual, you can mail to tsd@mail.portwell.com.tw or you can also send mail to our sales, they wull be very delighted to forward them to us. WADE-8170 User’s Manual...
  • Page 63 Program Area 0F6C-9EFF 574K [Available] = Conventional memory ends at 636K = 9F00-9FBF Extended BIOS Area 9FC0-9FFF Unused A000-AFFF VGA Graphics B000-B7FF Unused B800-BFFF VGA Text C000-CEBF Video ROM CEC0-EFFF 133K Unused F000-FFFF System ROM First 64K Extended WADE-8170 User’s Manual...
  • Page 64 Usable IRQ IRQ 10 [Unassigned] Usable IRQ IRQ 11 [Unassigned] Usable IRQ IRQ 12 System ROM IBM Mouse Event IRQ 13 System ROM Coprocessor Error IRQ 14 System ROM Hard Disk Event IRQ 15 [Unassigned] Usable IRQ WADE-8170 User’s Manual...

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