February 06,
2002
UCR CS269:
Hardware/Software Engineering of Embedded Systems
How the current was measured
•The programs being considered were put in infinite loops and current readings were taken.
•The main limitation of
this approach is that it will not work for
programs with larger execution times since the
ammeter may not show a stable reading. Since
the main use of this approach was in determining
the current drawn during a particular instruction,
this isn’t much of a problem.