The USC Andrew and Erna Viterbi School of Engineering USC Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering University of Southern California

EE 459Lx - Embedded Systems Design Laboratory

Spring 2025

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

Office meetings will start the week of 2/10. The meetings will be held in Prof. Weber's office, EEB 410, and all team members should attend. Bring your project board with you so we can provide some feedback on how the lab assignments were done.

Sample DDR Presentations

Below are some samples of DDR presentations from previous semesters.

Documents

10:00-11:50 section2:00-3:50 section
Course syllabus Course syllabus
Semester schedule Semester schedule
Project description Project description

Handouts and Assignments

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

These are the lab assignments that were handed out

Teams and Meeting Schedule

Below are the team assignments in no particular order.

10:00 Class

TeamMembersMeeting Time
10Aleena Imran, Maia Nkonabang, Taryn Sanders11:30 Thurs.
11Armando Martinez, Myilan Muruganujan, Jadynne Zane11:30 Tues.
12Abdelaziz Abdelrhman, Linus Lei, Jackie Pham11:00 Thurs.
13Adam Lewczuk, Alexandra Somodi, Michael Wasson2:00 Mon.
14Tj Anand, Juan Barrios Perez11:00 Tues.
15Campbell Nystrom, Leslie Rodriguez, Ishita Vasishtha9:30 Tues.
16Adnan Alouane, Max Chow, Fahim Kamal1:00 Mon.
17Caroline Dworken, Elaina Huber10:30 Tues.
18Jason Liao, Atilla Uslu, Nicklas Yeh10:30 Thurs.
19Leikhang Xiong, Owen Zeng, Robert Zhang10:00 Thurs.
20Michael Castro, Riley Milligan, Way Zheng10:00 Tues.

2:00 Class

TeamMembersMeeting Time
1Shri Krishnamachari, Russell Rodriguez, Lauren Tomita2:30 Thurs.
2Matthew Jiang, Richard Ochoa, Xiaolei Yu2:00 Tues.
3Jeremy Pogue, Karla Vasquez, Allan Anderson2:30 Mon.
4Ryan Sanchez, Michael Wang, Yikai Yang2:00 Thurs.
5Pammie Emefiele, Hyun Chang, Benjamin Lindstrom9:30 Thurs.
6Rachel Appenzeller, Cameron Davis, Aline Garcia-Sanchez3:30 Thurs.
7Matthew Guo, Kevin Luo, Jordan Sosa3:00 Thurs.
8Erin Coulon, Victoria Nunez, Drew Uramoto1:30 Mon.
9Brice Brown, Jake Hosking3:30 Tues.

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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