PowerMate
Overview
Stop Guessing at Your System’s Power Consumption!
Optimize for Long Battery Life Today with PowerMate
More and more, developers designing embedded and other electronic systems are being asked to design for energy efficiency. Texas Instruments, Atmel, Microchip, ST, and other providers offer MCUs designed for ultra-low-power operation, and yet without a lab full of expensive instrumentation, the designer can only estimate power consumption based on datasheet specs.
Designed specifically for low power electronics developers, PocketPico PowerMate accurately measures current from 1 nA to 30 mA between 200 mV and 5 V in a single measurement range, and charts energy usage over time. With PowerMate, you now have the ability to minimize the power profile of your hardware and software within your development environment and on your development boards.
Highlights
- Real-time energy profiling and graphing
- Wide, single measurement range, providing fast & accurate data collection
- Operation within any development environment
- Power via USB, no external power needed
Mode of Operation
- 1. Reference voltage
- 2. Input voltage
- 3. Common ground
PowerMate Reader
The PowerMate Reader PC application is your interface to the PowerMate’s measurement capabilities. This application, available for free, allows you to control your testing setup, and to analyze & graph the collected data. PowerMate is also capable of working with MATLAB, LabVIEW, and other software via the open SCPI command protocol.
Whether designing your system for the longest battery life or the best thermal performance, PowerMate gets you there.
Specifications
| Model P200 | |
|---|---|
| Min test current | 1 nA |
| Max test current | 30 mA |
| Settable operating voltage | 200 mV – 5 V |
| Ranging | Continuous (single range) |
| Accuracy | 0.5% of input |
| Resolution | 4 1/2 digits, 10pA min |
| Sampling rate | 62,500/s (internally) |
| Input voltage burden | <5 mV |
| Measurement method | Unidirectional current source |
| Analog input | Terminal connections (1mm pins) |
| Digital output | USB 2.0 |
Measurement Method
Unlike other measurement instruments, PowerMate does not use shunt resistors to measure ultra-low-power. With PowerMate, you will experience virtually no measurement interference, and a voltage drop of less than 5 mV.
Press
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“PowerMate charts energy usage over time” |
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