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User manual - ICP DAS USA

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1. IntroductionNowadays, Linux has been adopted widely by many users because of the propertiesof stability, open source, and free of charge. In the mean while, owing to the great supportsfrom more and more companies and the mature development, Linux is now becoming oneof the most popular OS on the market. Furthermore the hardware requirements of Linux OSin embedded system is not high, just only 386 CPU or better and 8 MB RAM. Therefore,besides Win CE of Microsoft, Linux has been already become another good choice inembedded OS.The Linux OS demands less system resources from the embedded controller and istherefore the best fit for it because of the embedded controller has some limitations insystem resources. It is for this reason that the LinPAC-8000 embbeded controller has beenpublished to be a new generation product from <strong>ICP</strong> <strong>DAS</strong> and the Embedded-Linux OS hasbeen adopted into the LinPAC-8000. The LinPAC-8000’s main purpose is to allow thenumerous enthusiastic linux users to control their own embedded systems easily within theLinux Environment.LinPAC-8000 is the second generation PAC of <strong>ICP</strong> <strong>DAS</strong>. It equips with a powerfulCPU module running a Linux kernel 2.6 operating system, various interfaces (VGA, USB,Ethernet, RS-232/485) and slots for high performance parallel I/O modules (high profileI-8K series) and serial-type I/O modules (high profile I-87K I/O modules).Compared with the first generation LinCon-8000, it not only improves the CPU performanceand upgrades OS (from Linux kernel 2.4 to Linux kernel 2.6), but also adds many reliabilityfeatures, such as dual LAN, redundant power input, dual battery backup SRAM, etc. Thosemake LinPAC-8000 to be the most powerful control system.<strong>ICP</strong> <strong>DAS</strong> provides the library file - libi8k.a which includes all the functions from theI-7000/8000/87000 series modules which are used in the LinPAC-8000 EmbeddedController. The libi8k.a is desiged specially for the I-7000/8000/87000 series modules onthe Linux platform for use in the LinPAC-8000. <strong>User</strong>s can easily develop applications in theLinPAC-8000 by using either C or Java Language and the .NET applications will also besupported In the future. The various functions of the libi8k.a are divided into the sub-groupLinPAC-8x4x SDK:6

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