Review of Digital System Access Remotely for FPGA Lab

This paper presents an innovative technique which provides the user a virtual platform via Internet where he can access laboratory equipments and hardware appliances which is the part of Digital System Lab environment [1]. It consists of a PLD/FPGA Board interfaced with a PC via customized hardware; this is called an e-Lab. The custom hardware uses low cost data acquisition components. A Graphical User Interface (GUI) has been designed for communication between the local PC terminal and the remote e-Lab system. This allows the user to take over the entire control of the system. GUI that is used to interface with the PLD/FPGA development board via custom control data acquisition hardware. It interfaces with the hardware, takes measurements and controls hardware, and it analyses data Students at the local PC can access the Lab PC via internet using Microsoft’s ‘Remote Desktop Connection’ facility. The student will access the lab PC “virtually” using Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection as if he were sitting in front of the PC and is able to perform file transfers. The prototype uses a Web Cam to provide a view of the FPGA system operation for the remote users.[1][2].