18-549: Embedded System Design

Overview

Welcome to 18-549 Spring 2017. The course syllabus is available here (PDF).

Course documents available on blackboard and discussion on piazza.

Course Description

This course comprises a semester-long project experience geared towards the development of skills to design realistic and practical embedded systems and applications. Students will work in teams on an innovative project that will involve the hands-on design, configuration, engineering, implementation and testing of a prototype of an embedded system of their choice. Students will be expected to leverage proficiency and background gained from other courses, particularly with regard to embedded real-time principles and embedded programming. The project will utilize a synergistic mixture of skills in system architecture, modular system design, software engineering, subsystem integration, debugging and testing. From inception to demonstration of the prototype, the course will follow industrial project practices, such as version control, design requirements, design reviews and quality assurance plans. The initial lecture content will cover background material intended to complement the project work. The remainder of the course will consist of regular team presentations of key project milestones, current project status, a final project presentation and functional demonstrations of various subsystems, even as the entire prototype is being developed.

A primary objective of this course is to provide the engineering student with a cooperative working experience as an active member of an interdisciplinary team. Students obtain practical experience with the design process and both learn and reinforce their knowledge of specific technical topics covered in lecture and applied in the project. A structured framework is provided to aid in the success of the team. In the second half of the semester, the teams meet weekly with the instructors to discuss progress, challenges, issues and plans.

18-549 in its current form was originally developed over many years by Professor Priya Narasimhan. Previous instances of the course can be found here. Note that project links on that site may not work properly.

Instructor

Course Staff

TA	Email	Office Hours in HH1303
Adwait Dongare	adongare	Wed 6:30-7:30pm
Kyuin Lee	kyuinl	Sun 5:00-6:00pm
Ram Verma	ramv	Fri 12:30-1:30
Artur Balanuta	arturb	Thu 6:00-7:00pm
Craig Hesling	jhesling	Tue 5:00-600pm

Course Management Assistant	Email	Office	Phone
Lyz Prelich-Knight	lyz@ece.cmu.edu	HH 1112	412-268-5087

Technical Course Management Assistant	Email	Office
Zara Collier	zcollier@andrew.cmu.edu	HH 1112

Schedule 2017

Week	Day	Date	Topic	Assignment / Comments
1	W	18-Jan	Lecture 1: Course Introduction
2	M	23-Jan	Lecture 2: Project Overview
	W	25-Jan	Lecture 3: PCB design	Lab 1 Release
3	M	30-Jan	Lecture 4: Sensors and Actuators	Team Formation Due
	W	1-Feb	Lecture 5: Project Logistics
6	M	6-Feb	Lecture 6: Communication	Lab 1 Due, Lab 2 Release
	W	8-Feb	Lecture 7: Low Power
	F	10-Feb	Proposal Document	Proposal Document Due
5	M	13-Feb	Proposal Presentation #1	Team Proposal Presentation
	W	15-Feb	Proposal Presentation #2	Team Proposal Presentation
6	M	20-Feb	Proposal Presentation #3	Presentations
	W	22-Feb	Lecture 8: Safety Critical Systems and Ethics	Lab 3 Release
	F	24-Feb	Website check 1	Delayed
7	M	27-Feb	Team meetings	Website check 1
	W	1-Mar	Team meetings	Lab 2 Due
8	M	6-Mar	Lab: System demo #1	System demo #1 and Lab 3 Due
	W	8-Mar	Team Meetings
	Th	9-Mar	Peer evaluation 1	Peer evaluation 1
9	M	13-Mar	Spring break: no classes
	W	15-Mar	Spring break: no classes
10	M	20-Mar	Lab: System demo #2	System demo #2
	W	22-Mar	Team meetings
11	M	27-Mar	Lab: System demo #3	System demo #3
	W	29-Mar	Team meetings
12	M	3-Apr	Team Update Presetations #1	Team Update Presetations #1
	W	5-Apr	Team Update Presetations #2	Team Update Presetations #2
	F	7-Apr	Website check 2	Website check 2
13	M	10-Apr	Lab: System demo #4	System demo #4
	W	12-Apr	Team meetings
14	M	17-Apr	Lab: System demo #5	System demo #5
	W	19-Apr	Team meetings
15	M	24-Apr	Lab: System demo #6	System demo #6
	W	26-Apr	Team meetings
16	M	1-May	Course feedback session	Cancelled
	S	6-May	Lab: Final system demo	Final system demo
17	F	12-May	Public Demo (redemption demo)	Public demo
18	S	14-May	Final report	Final report (Due AoE)
	S	14-May	Final Website Check	Final Website check (Due AoE)

Projects (Spring 2017)

Team #	Project Name	Team Members
1	AquaOS	Robert Dioso, James Mackaman, Connor Maines, Jordan Tick
2	Pancake Picasso	Alec Foster, Jack Urbanek, Jake Tesler, Sergio Claure
3	Opsis	Ryan Kim, Jaeho Bang, Jonathan Appiagyei, Paul Pan
4	Laura	Coln Wee, Vivek Sridhr, Abhinand Sukumr, Madisn Scott
5	Tinkl	Vasu Agrawal, Eric Fang, Matthew Lee, Joel Loo
6	Pill Popper	Aishwarya Prem Renu, Isaac Manjarres, Karthic Palaniappan, Ashwin Raghavachari
7	Project Third Eye	Chi Chen, Dan Cheng, Qifang Cai, Ryan Lam
8	Lumberjack	Nick Kosarek, Zach Newman, Cortney Padua, Kiran Pandit
9	Project Smart Sleeper	Doo Won Kang, Patrick Glinsman, Eric Hu, Kerolos Mikaeil
10	SteamFi	John Bird, Evans Hauser, Selin Sirinterlikci, Nick Wilson
11	Smart Utility Pole	Benjamin Crites, Anton Kuznetsov, Evan Lee, Hannah Tomio
12	Teletouch	Chelsea Kwong, Cristian Vallejo, Lisa Yan, Rohan Jadvani
13	Project Runway	Helen Cho, Amy Lin, Brian Ho
14	Praxicam	Hannah Ng, Paul Chun, Susan Zuo, Tuan Anh Le
15	PSTR	Nikhil Nilakantan, Adit Namdev, Tony Jin, Benson Zhang
16	Finer Dining	Alina Rath, Hari Guduru, Mark Fernandez, Varun Prakasam
17	RLColor	Evan Adkins, Evi Bernitsas, Christopher Chong, Malik Parker
18	Slap Screen	Steven Connors, Mark McElwaine, Brandon Schmuck, Alyssa Chang, Nikhita Vanwari
19	Minnesoda	Stephen Chung, Brian Li, Kevin Lee, Vincent Liu
20	UrbanSense	Riya Savla, Ridhi Suruna, Chris Wei, Aatish Nayak
21	Occulow	Terence Sun, Udaya Malik, Jacob Brooks, Preetam Amancharla
22	AcoustiCam	Brian Cao, Andrew Feng, Rishi Khanna, Alan Wang
23	Mike’s Magic Meme Mirror	Jason Mayorga, Joshua Cho, Zach Piscitelli, Hekai Yue

Past Projects (Spring 2016)

Team #	Project Name	Team Members
1	Snorlax	Ameya Kamat, Benson Qiu, Harsha Chivukula, Pratik Prakash
2	Scribe	Dillon Lareau, Jane Threefoot, Nitsan Shai and Gabe Hobeika
3	Acoustic Phantom	Chia Dai, Anson Wang, Yiru Yao, Sheryl Zhang
4	IntelliDrive	Tom Eliot (tke), Shepard Emerson (semerson), Daniel Gorziglia (dgorzigl), Daniel Haddox (dhaddox)
5	Touch	Ilter Canberk, Kaan Dogrusoz, Xavier Contreras, Raghav Gupta
6	Chroma Makeup Printer	Jenna Maccarley, Jin Bing Lin, Udgeetha Mallampalli, Nandini Ramakrishnan
7	AutoPot	Raymond Xu, Anny Ni, Grace Lee, Edwin Cho
8	Catan-omous Dealer	Connie Wang, Omer Elhiraika, Katherine Wang, Kenneth Li
9	osu!Gosu	Matthew Du, Victor Hu, Kevin Kuan, Yue Li
10	BØDTLE - Your Hydration Companion	Cathy Song, Hao Yang, Sijia Zhang, Robert Chen
11	Little Brother	Alex Maeda, Ramsey Natour, Manuel Diaz Corrada, Tom Mayo-Smith
12	Perception	Baek Kyoum Kim, Yassine Mouline, Rishi Ved, Michael Solomon
13	OuiCan - Reduce our waste together	Omar Skalli, Karim Elmaaroufi, Christi Martin, Santo Ko
14	Bike Project	Vishnu Razdan, Marc-Daniel Julien, Jeffrey He, Francisco Rojo
15	Augmented Reality Pool	Zachary Dawson, Audrey Yeoh, Kevin Xu, Ryan Chapman
16	Mission Possible	Jes Stayton, Vruti Sivakumaran, Jingxu Yang, Kashish Mittal
17	Rita	Ian Glasner, Theodore Warhoe, Ram Verma, Arulnithi Sundaramoorthy
18	Watchdog	Karen Jung, Minjae (MJ) Shin, SeongYeon (Alice) Park, Won Chung, Kyuin Lee
19	Express Basket	Norman Ponte, Andrew Orobator, Parag Srivastava
20	Low Power Rangers	Clayton Ritcher, Nora Shoemaker, Shashwat Srivastava
21	Ghostwriter	Jake Stephens, Matthew Mercedes, Lucas Bruder
22	We Talkin' About Practice	Brian Kim, Sheen Lueh, Jason Yan
23	BlankSpace	Sarah Kwan, Ryan Montgomery, Junha Shin