Multi-user/Multi-test-bed Remote Hardware Laboratory with Job Management System

A new remote hardware laboratory, supporting multi-user/multi-test-bed, has been developed. Learners can perform experiments remotely utilizing actual hardware and actual measurement tools. It employs FPGAs for design implementation test-beds. It can handle many experiment sessions concurrently, by making use of actual hardware test-beds in time and space division fashions. Learners at remote sites can perform actual hardware experiments in parallel. It realized seamless remote and actual hardware laboratories. The combinatorial use of FPGA/PC connected test hardware and PC-based measurement equipment has made it possible to develop a multi-user/multi-test-bed remote hardware experiment system. In order to allocate available experimental environments for users at the same time, a job management system is employed. The prototype system of self-learning experiment environment for digital circuit designs and experiments is in use for 3r class CS students at Hosei University.