CAD laboratory students activity is mandatory for microelectronics teaching. This, applied in the deep-submicron era, creates new challenges to couple software
management simplicity to user friendliness inside lab sessions,
which requires the use of complex tools and concepts. In this
paper, a new approach to microelectronics CAD deployment is
presented, based on virtualization capabilities of new servers
hardware and software technology. A test case, realized at
Politecnico di Torino, degree of Electronic Engineering, is
presented, with real world results on resource consumption
and user satisfaction