Who it's for

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Online labs for online learning

Labs provide the practical experience that is a cornerstone of education. However, labs require dedicated space, constant maintenance, and for students to be physically present.

Our goal is to overcome these problems by delivering real lab hardware to students through a web browser. With our versatile infrastructure, integrating your existing curriculum into our online system is extremely easy and fast.

Our platform has been successfully used by the University of Waterloo to provide labs for electrical and computer engineering students at both the undergraduate and graduate level.

Benefits for schools

  • Labs are professionally maintained and kept up-to-date.
  • Never worry about lab space and hardware logistics.
  • Built in automated grading and plagiarism detection.
  • Perfect for completing distance education.

Benefits for students

  • Access dedicated lab hardware from anywhere at anytime.
  • Students can work on and explore labs at their own pace.
  • Receive immediate feedback using our built in evaluators.
  • Extra assistance available through support tickets and discussion forums.
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Simplify your development toolchain

There are many different embedded systems available, with more appearing everyday. As an embedded developer, configuring and maintaining compilers, toolchains, and debugging tools for each of these systems requires significant time and effort.

To make it easier for developers to evaluate different systems or to adopt a new system, our platform provides pre-configured and up to date online development environments for a wide variety of embedded systems.

Benefits for developers

  • Evaluate or adopt new embedded systems with drastically reduced overhead costs and no lead-time.
  • Focus efforts on actual development, not setting up and troubleshooting development environments.
  • Real back-end hardware guarantees accurate software behavior.
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Easier equipment management

Corporate trainers often face the frustrating task of having to ship, setup, and troubleshoot equipment before and during each training session. Different clients will have different infrastructures, and hardware and software compatibility issues can quickly become a nightmare.

With our platform, the trainees have access to dedicated training hardware through any web browser. In addition, our online development environments can be customized for each session. This allows the trainer to delve straight into the curriculum, and ensures a smooth, consistent experience for all trainees.

Benefits for trainers

  • Focus on core training, not logistics and troubleshooting.
  • Smooth, consistent trainee experience regardless of location or infrastructure.
  • Built in analytics provide immediate valuable insight into trainee performance.
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Increase your speed-to-market

Using our platform as an online delivery system, new electronics chips can be made available to large numbers of early adopters quickly and cheaply. With our online development environment, users will be able to fully utilize the chips immediately without having to worry about toolchain setup or system compatibility. Our highly scalable infrastructure ensures that everyone has access to your product from anywhere at anytime.

Benefits for chip vendors

  • Provides immediate access to new chips cheaply and easily.
  • No toolchain setup or system compatibility issues means clients will focus on using the product.
  • Online analytics and integrated feedback system provide valuable information for chip vendors.

Find out how Labforge can help you.