This is the home page for the EE 459Lx (Embedded Systems Design Laboratory) class. From here you can view announcments and get copies of handouts, schedules and other documents.

Announcements

To reserve a time for project demonstrations, see the Project Demonstration Reservation page.

Sample DDR Presentations

Below are some samples of DDR presentations from previous semesters.

• Spring 2019, Team 4
• Spring 2021, Team 2
• Spring 2021, Team 6
• Spring 2022, Team 17
• Spring 2023, Team 3

Documents

	10:00-11:50 section	2:00-3:50 section
	Course syllabus	Course syllabus
	Semester schedule	Semester schedule
	Project description	Project description

• Office meetings schedule
• List of available parts for project construction
• Status of parts orders

• Reference library - A variety of EE 459 documents including datasheets for most of the parts available from our stocks for project construction.
• Past projects - Information on projects done in previous semesters in EE459.

Handouts and Assignments

The documents below are handouts that will be discussed in class or during the office meetings

• ATmega328P - Notes on using the Atmel ATmega328P microcontroller
• AVR-gcc - Notes on using the development software to write programs for the ATmega328P
• EE 459 Lab Notes - Lots of information on constructing projects
• Serial Interfaces - Slides of presentation on using RS-232, I2C and SPI interfaces

These are the lab assignments that were handed out

• Lab Assignment #1 - Getting power on the board
• Lab Assignment #2 - Programming the microcontroller
• Lab Assignment #3 - I/O bit test program
• Lab Assignment #4 - (Optional) Putting a serial interface on the board

Teams and Meeting Schedule

Below are the team assignments in no particular order.

10:00 Class

Team	Members	Meeting Time
6	Riad Alasadi, Arda Caliskan, Tyler Chen	Tues. 10:30
7	Gurdeep Barring, Katie Randall, Grace True	Thurs. 10:30
8	Vishal Billa, Elliott Meeks, Mihir Singh	Thurs. 11:00
9	Munir Bshara, Carrie Lei, Eric Zhong	Thurs. 10:00
10	Carl Campos, Bill Guo, Andi Torres	Thurs. 11:30
11	Kelvin Cao, Ty Majam, Yaoyue Wang	Wed. 10:30
12	Jack Carter, Georgia Danehy, Daniel Hotson	Mon. 12:30
13	Richard Chen, Sriya Kuruppath, Justin Liu	Tues. 10:00
14	Eric Chen, Simon To, Tianhao Wu	Thurs. 9:00
15	Rhys Colman, Anton Ramirez Padilla, Justin Santos	Thurs. 9:30
16	Taliyah Emory-Muhammad, Asiel Garcia, Chengzhong Luo	Tues. 11:00
17	Caleb Flenoury, Miles Stoddart, Sophia Yamashita	Tues. 11:30
18	Jackie Finnemeyer, David Kress	Tues. 9:30
19	Brandon Gong, Isaiah Lee, Chur Tam	Wed. 4:00
20	Cami Gomez, Chisom Osuji	Fri. 10:00

2:00 Class

Team	Members	Meeting Time
1	Brendon Best, Issac Magallanes, Alex Zhou	Tues. 3:30
2	Marina Braga, Emu Eghre-Bello, Selina Martinez	Tues. 2:00
3	Angelly Cabrera, Ellen Ko, Juan Martinez	Tues. 2:30
4	Franco Zarzosa Castillo, Nathan Kassa, Sujit Ponguluri	Thurs. 2:30
5	Will Durban, Jorge Gonzalez, Natasha Lal	Tues. 3:00

All teams should turn in a copy of their weekly progress report at the meetings. If you can't find any of the forms that were given to you, here's a generic one to fill out: WeeklyProgressReport.pdf

Other stuff

If you are interested in purchasing electronic components for building projects, here are some links to places we buy parts from.

Digi-Key - This is our primary supplier of electronic components. They have a large inventory, the prices are reasonable, and we usually get the order pretty quickly. However the size of their inventory sometimes makes it hard to find things.

Jameco Electronics - This is another supplier we use for supplies. Their inventory is smaller than Digi-Key and it's sometimes a bit easier to find things. They used to have a nice printed catalog but not any more.

Adafruit, SparkFun - These companies sell a lot of interesting items for the hobbyist/experimenter. Both companies sell a lot of "breakout boards" where they have mounted small IC's that are difficult to work with on PCBs what make connections to the IC easier.

Parallax, DFRobot - These are similar to Adafruit and SparkFun in that most of the stuff is for the hobbyist.

Phoenix Enterprises - They seem to have a good selection of connectors and parts for wire-wrapping.

Newark and Mouser Electronics - These two are major suppliers to the electronics industry with very large inventories. Not sure if they have minimum order amounts that may make it hard for the hobbyist but they are worth a look.

Apex Surplus, This is a large electronics surplus store in an industrial area of the San Fernando Valley (8909 San Fernando Road, Sun Valley). If they have something you need, you can probably get it at a good price, but it's sometimes hard to find things. It's definitely worth at least one trip there just to see the place, and its storage area outside in the back.

Office Hours

Allan Weber

M: 10-11:30, W: 11-12, Th: 4-5

EEB 410, 213-740-4147

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