Recently, Linux has been adopted widely by many users because of the properties of stability, open source, and free charge. In the mean while, the development of linux is supported by many large international companies and the function in linux is not inferior to Windows so that linux OS is more and more popular and accepted. In the other hand, the hardware requirement that linux OS can works in embedded system smoothly is not high, just only 386 CPU or better and 8 MB RAM. Therefore except Win CE of Microsoft, Linux has been already another good choice in embedded OS. For this reason, the LinCon-8000 Embbeded Controller has been published to be a new generation product from ICPDAS and the Embedded RT-Linux OS has been adopted into the LinCon-8000. The main purpose of LinCon-8000 is to allow the numerous enthusiastic linux users to control their own embedded system easily within the Linux Environment.

The LinCon-8000 gives users all of the best features of both traditional PLCs and Windows capable PCs. The LinCon-8000 includes a VGA port allowing users to choose a regular LCD monitor for display of HMI application, USB port to connect with USB device for storage or touch monitor, Compact Flash memory for storage of program and data, and PS/2 ports for Keyboard and Mouse. The figure is the general application for LinCon-8000.