Moving from a rough power budget to analysis of the code linked to the actual power consumption, engineers can now click on power spikes to see which instructions are responsible and set power break points to debug code.
Silicon Labs has launched a power aware tool that can provide the power figures for its configurable microcontrollers to give designers the power consumption of the different blocks that are implemented.
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