The R&S®CDS campus dashboard software simplifies the teaching of student groups in laboratories with multiple workbenches. It provides access to many instrument functions and settings as well as firmware updates and screenshots.



Teaching large student groups in test and measurement laboratories can be difficult to manage. Especially in laboratories with many workbenches and different instruments, it is cumbersome to provide identical conditions for all students. Retrieving results from all student instruments is usually a time-consuming task. It is also necessary to keep all instruments up to date with regular firmware updates.



With the R&S®CDS software, these tasks can be performed for multiple instruments simultaneously. R&S®CDS facilitates simple and time-efficient teaching of large student groups in laboratories with multiple test and measurement benches.
Operated from a central computer, the software automatically connects to supported instruments in the local network. The instruments can be arranged on virtual benches that can be customized to match the user’s laboratory layout. The software enables simultaneous firmware updates on multiple instruments with just a few clicks.



The R&S®CDS campus dashboard software remotely controls up to 300 individual instruments (oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, and power supplies).



The teacher uses the software to set identical conditions for all student benches, to save settings from one instrument and distribute these settings to all students, or retrieve the results of all students simultaneously. These operations require just a few clicks.



The teacher can remotely control the single instruments and execute various measurement functions using the software interface. This tremendously simplifies simultaneous lab training for student groups. It also streamlines regular maintenance of multiple instruments in laboratories with many workbenches by enabling simultaneous firmware updates on multiple instruments.



The R&S®CDS software is an ideal solution for easily managing and controlling large student laboratories from a single computer. Lab managers, tutors, students, and professors equally benefit from its excellent usability, simplified workflows and automation capabilities.