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 2/9. 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.

• Spring 2019, Team 4
• Spring 2021, Team 2
• Spring 2021, Team 6
• Spring 2022, Team 17
• Spring 2023, Team 3
• Spring 2024, Team 19
• Spring 2025, Team 17

Documents

• Course syllabus
• Semester schedule
• 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
• Sensor_Modules - Slides of presentation on the use of various sensor modules on breakout boards
• Serial Interfaces - Slides of presentation on using RS-232, I2C and SPI interfaces
• EE 459 Lab Notes - Lots of information on constructing projects

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

Teams and Meeting Schedule

Below are the team assignments in no particular order.

Team	Members	Meeting Time
21	Walid Al-Muhtaseb, Haily Kuang, Juan Lorenzo Ordenes	11:00 Tues
22	Kayal Bhatia, Asher Holtham, Phoebe Turner
23	Alex Chen, Ernest Guo, Jaime Martin	10:00 Thurs
24	Jerry Chen, Cynthia Huang, William Liu	4:00 Tues
25	Alexander Forgosh, Shirin Jain, Isaac Stadelman	4:30 Tues
26	Le Duong, Andrew Sykes	10:30 Thurs
27	Isabel Fernandez, Leslie Garcia-Sanchez, Jimena Urena	12:00 Mon
28	Jason Garland, Robin Ryu	10:00 Mon
29	Valeria Gamez Hernandez, Andi Guerrero, Anoushka Narayan	10:30 Tues
30	Mary Karapetyan, Karen Mkrtchyan, Jacob Rojit	11:30 Tues
31	Junsoo Kim, Deccan Maniam, Phong Nguyen	11:00 Thurs
32	David Delgado, Conrad Nelson, Sahil Pandit	11:30 Thurs
33	Maia Piechocki, Isabella Samardzic, Erin Yuen	12:30 Mon

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: 1-2pm, W/F: 10:30-11:30am

EEB 410, 213-740-4147

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