Embedded Systems Introductory Course supported by remote experiments

Laboratories for introductory digital system design courses have, commonly, high rates of laboratory’s space and time occupation. In this paper, a remote laboratory is proposed in order to alleviate laboratory’s occupation, although increasing the usage of their equipments by students. Local and remote accesses to the experiments are possible, supported by the LabView environment, and complemented by a specific virtual workbench adaptor to emulate user’s presence. Its usage for supporting experimentation around a set of experiments with a set-up based on the 8031 microcontroller was successfully tested.