Remote low-power digital design system

Abstract

This contribution will discuss the architecture and operation of a remote low-power digital design system at the Bonn-Rhine-Sieg University in Germany for teaching the concepts of low-power digital circuit design. Recently, a low-power digital system is an essential technological need due to the high demand for portable devices with less weight. The design of an efficient digital circuit in term of low-power has become a very challenging problem. Therefore, teaching low-power digital design for electrical and computer engineering students is valuable, and it is essential to have practical laboratory exercises available. The laboratory experiments use a field programmable gate array (FPGA) as a design platform for circuit implementation by the students. Remote laboratories offer on-line experiments which are not restricted to a geographical place and allow performing laboratory experiments using real instruments and obtaining real data.