Portwell WADE-8172 User manual

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Version 1.1
Industrial Mini-ITX Board
WADE-8172

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Revision History
R1.0
Preliminary
R1.1
Update USB_2_4_5 & USB_2_6_7 jumper setting

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Contents
1 Introduction .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 7
2 Specifications........................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 8
2.1 Supported Operating Systems........................................................................................................................................................................................... 9
2.2 Mechanical Dimensions................................................................................................................................................................................................... 10
2.3 Power Consumption .........................................................................................................................................................................................................11
2.4 Environmental Specifications........................................................................................................................................................................................... 12
3 Block Diagram........................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 13
4 Hardware Configuration ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 14
4.1 Jumpers and Connector .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 14
4.2 Jumpers Setting............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 15
5 Signal Descriptions ................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 32
5.1 Watch Dog Signal............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 32
5.2 GPIO Signal .................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 32
6 System Resources................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 34
6.1 Intel® Apollo Lake SoC .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 34
6.2 Main Memory ................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 34
6.3 Installing the Single Board Computer............................................................................................................................................................................... 34
6.3.1 Chipset Component Driver ................................................................................................................................................................................... 35
6.3.2 Intel® HD Graphics 50X ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 35
6.3.3 Realtek RTL8111G Gigabit Ethernet Controller.................................................................................................................................................... 36
7 BIOS Setup Items..................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 37

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7.1 Introduction ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 37
7.2 BIOS Setup...................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 37
7.2.1 Main ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 39
7.2.2 Advanced ............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 41
7.2.3 H/W Monitor ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 55
7.2.4 Security ................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 58
7.2.5 Boot...................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 60
7.2.6 Exit ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 63
8 Troubleshooting........................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 65
8.1 Hardware Quick Installation ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 65
8.2 BIOS Setting .................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 67
8.3 FAQ.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 68
9 Portwell Software Service ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 76
10 Industry Specifications ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 77

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Preface
This user’s guide provides information about the components, features, connectors and BIOS Setup menus available on the WADE-8172. This document should
be referred to when designing Mini-ITX application. The other reference documents that should be used include the following:
Intel Apollo Lake Design Guide
Intel Apollo Lake l Specification
Please contact Portwell Sales Representative for above documents.
Disclaimer
The information contained within this user’s guide, including but not limited to any product specification, is subject to change without notice.
Portwell provides no warranty with regard to this user’s guide or any other information contained herein and hereby expressly disclaims any implied warranties
of merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose with regard to any of the foregoing. Portwell assumes no liability for any damages incurred directly or
indirectly from any technical or typographical errors or omissions contained herein or for discrepancies between the product and the user’s guide. In no event
shall Portwell be liable for any incidental, consequential, special, or exemplary damages, whether based on tort, contract or otherwise, arising out of or in
connection with this user’s guide or any other information contained herein or the use thereof.
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Warranty
Portwell makes no representation, warranty or guaranty, express or implied regarding the products except its standard form of limited warranty (“Limited
Warranty”). Portwell may in its sole discretion modify its Limited Warranty at any time and from time to time.
Beginning on the date of shipment to its direct customer and continuing for the published warranty period, Portwell represents that the products are new and
warrants that each product failing to function properly under normal use, due to a defect in materials or workmanship or due to non conformance to the agreed
upon specifications, will be repaired or exchanged, at Portwell’s option and expense.
Certification
Portwell is certified to DIN EN ISO 9001:2000 standard.
Technical Support
Portwell technicians and engineers are committed to providing the best possible technical support for our customers so that our products can be easily used and
implemented.
We request that you first visit our website at http://www.portwell.com.tw/support/ for the latest documentation, utilities and drivers, which have been made
available to assist you. If you still require assistance after visiting our website then contact our technical support department by email at
[email protected]for further assistance. Thank you!

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1Introduction
The WADE-8172, designed with Apollo Lake Intel Atom processor E3900 series or N3350 / N4200 processor , features two DDR3L 1333/1600/1866 MHz
SO-DIMM socket equipped with up to 16GB DDR3L memory.
Atom solution is still popular in the market of Kiosk, Panel PC, Digital Security and Digital Signage which can fulfill most of these applications; therefore, with
high performance and high-end specifications, Apollo Lake SoC is our first generation Atom chip architecture on Mini-ITX line.

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2Specifications
Main Processor
◆Intel® Apollo lake SoC Processors
System BIOS
◆AMI UEFI BIOS
Main Memory
◆Up to 16 GB in 2 slots DDR3L SO-DIMM sockets. Supports dual channel DDR3L 1867 MHz SDRAM
Graphics
◆Controller: Intel®HD Graphics 50X series
◆VGA: Supports VGA up to resolution 1920 x 1200
◆LVDS: Supports Dual Channel 24bit up to resolution 1920 x 1200
◆HDMI: Supports HDMI up to resolution 4096x 2160@ 24Hz
Expansion Interface
◆One Mini-PCIe socket
◆Two M.2 socket(Key M & Key E)
SATA Interface
◆One SATA ports(SATA 6Gb/s)
Input/Output
◆Serial Ports: 3 x RS-232 on board & 3 x RS-232/422/485 on Rear I/O
◆Support Keyboard and PS/2 mouse connector (Rear I/O)
◆USB Port: 4 x USB 3.0 & 4 x USB 2.0
◆Audio Interface: Connector for Mic-In and Line-Out
Ethernet
◆Supports dual 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet port (s) via PCI Express x1 bus which provides 500 MB/s data
transmission rate
High Drive GPIO
◆One pin-header for GPIO(8bit in &8bit out)

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Mechanical
and
environmental specifications
◆Operating temperature: 0 ~ 50° C
◆Storage temperature:-20 ~ 80° C
◆Humidity: 5 ~ 90% non-condensing
◆Board size: 170mm x 170 mm
2.1 Supported Operating Systems
The WADE-8172 supports the following operating systems.
Windows 10* (64 bit), IoT Core(32/64bit)
Wind River* 8.0 Linux Distribution(64 bit)
Yocto* Tool-based Embedded Linux Distribution (64 bit)
Android* 6.0(64bit)
VxWorks*7.0 (RTOS) (64 bit)

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2.2 Mechanical Dimensions

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2.3 Power Consumption
Test Configuration
CPU Type Intel®Celeron®CPU N3350 @ 1.10GHz
SBC BIOS WADE-8172 R1.00.E0
Memory DDR3 L So DIMM 1866 8GB Transcend (6HP47D9SGQ)*2
VGA Card Intel®HD Graphic 500
VGA Driver Intel®Display Driver; 21.20.16.4534
LAN Card Realtek 8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet
LAN Driver Realtek driver version:9.1.404.2015
LAN Card Realtek 8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet
LAN Driver Realtek driver version:9.1.404.2015
Audio Card Realtek ALC887
Audio Driver Realtek High Definition Audio 10.0.14393.0
6.0.1.7989
6.0.1.7989
6.0.1.7989
6.0.1.7989
Chip Driver Intel®Chipset Device Software Version: 10.1.1
* Version: 10.1.1
USB3.0 Driver Intel®USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller : 10.0.14393.0
Power Supply PLUTO-D3501PJ
CPU Type Intel®Celeron®CPU N3350 @ 1.10GHz
SBC BIOS WADE-8172 R1.00.E0

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Power consumption
ATX:
ATX RAIDER 550W
Power Consumption (W)
Power Consumption (W)
N3350
N4200
S0 and short idle(5mins after OS boot)
22.1
22.7
S0 and long idle(15mins after OS boot)
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23.7
Full Loading(Run Prime95 small FFT's item)
27.5
28.6
S1(Monitor Auto Off)
N/A
N/A
S3(Sleep mode) <5Watt
1.84
1.92
S4(Hibernate)
1.81
1.87
S5(Shut down)
1.53
1.58
Deep S5(Shut down)
1.16
1.18
USB2.0 Loading Test
5.05 V / 560 mA
USB3.0 Loading Test
5.01 V / 1090 mA
2.4 Environmental Specifications
Storage Temperature : -20~80°C
Operation Temperature : 0~60°C
Storage Humidity : 5~90%
Operation Humidity: 10~90%

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3Block Diagram

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4Hardware Configuration
4.1 Jumpers and Connector
This chapter indicates jumpers’, headers’ and connectors’ locations. Users may find useful information related to hardware settings in this chapter.
※If you install one memory module only, please install it on DDR3_A1.

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4.2 Jumpers Setting
For users to customize WADE-8172’s features. In the following sections, Short means covering a jumper cap over jumperpins; Open or N/C (Not Connected)
means removing a jumper cap from jumper pins. Users can refer to Figure 1 for the Jumper allocations.
Jumper Table
The jumper settings are schematically depicted in this manual as follows:
Jumper Function List
1
EDP_LVDS Jumpers
2
Clear CMOS Jumper
3
4-pin CPU Fan Connector
4
ATX Power Connector(Input 12V-24V)
5
LVDS Panel Connector
6
BLT PWM1
7
BL1,BL2
8
Backlight Volume Control(BLT_Vol1)
9
Backlight Power Connector(BLT_PWR1)
10
Panel Power Select(LCD_VCC)
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Digital Input / Output Power Select
12
20-pin ATX Power input Connector
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System Panel Header
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COM Port PWR Setting Jumpers

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4-Pin Chassis FAN Connector(+12V)
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2-Pin Buzzer Header
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COM4, 5, 6 Headers(RS232)
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Digital Input / Output Default Value Setting(JGPIO_SET1)
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Backlight Power Select(LCD_BLT_VCC)(BKT_PWR1)
20
Printer Port / GPIO Header(LPT_GPIO1)
21
Chassis Intrusion Headers
22
ATX/AT Mode Select(PWR JP1)
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SATA Power Output Connector
24
SATA3 Connector (SATA3_1)
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LPC Header
26
3W Audio AMP Output Wafer
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SPDIF Header
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Front Panel Audio Header
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Audio Output
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Top:RJ45 LAN port(LAN2)
Bottom:USB 3.0 Ports(USB3_2_3)
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USB2 Power Setting Jumper(USB2_PWR_H1, USB2_PWR_H2)
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USB2.0 Connector(USB2_4_5,USB2_6_7)
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USB6_S_MPCIE1 & 2
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Top:RJ45 LAN port(LAN1)
Bottom:USB 3.0 Ports(USB3_0_1)

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Clear CMOS Header
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USB Power Setting Jumper(USB3_PWR_H1, USB3_PWR_H2)
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VGA Header
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TOP:COM Port 3 (RS232/422/485)
Bottom: VGA/D-Sub Port
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COM port PWR Setting Jumpers
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Top: COM Port 1(RS232/422/485)*
Bottom: COM Port 2(RS232/422/485)*
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PS/2 Mouse/Keyboard Port
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HDMI Port
1 : EDP_LVDS Jumpers
EDP_LVDS_J1:
1-2: eDP
2-3: LVDS
EDP_LVDS_J2:
1-2: eDP
2-3: LVDS

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2 : Clear CMOS Jumper
Open: Normal
Short: Clear CMOS
3 : 4-Pin CPU FAN Connector (+12V)
4 : ATX Power Connector
(Input 12V-24V)
1-2: GND
3-4: DC Input

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5 : LVDS Panel Connector
6 : BLT_PWM1
1-2: +3V Level
2-3: +5V Level

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7 : BL1, BL2
8 : Backlight Volume Control (BLT_VOL1)
9 : Backlight Power Connector (BLT_PWR1)