Energy Micro Announced Software Tool

Published:2011/11/25 1:52:00 Author:Amy From:SeekIC

Energy Micro has released a software tool which enables designers to precisely estimate battery cell life expectancy in applications on the basis of its low power EFM32 Gecko microcontrollers. The energyAware Battery Estimator offers a full simulation of total system energy usage, that takes into account actual battery source, MCU energy modes, peripherals employed and external circuit components.

In simulation mode, system battery voltage output is displayed against time (years) in graph format, with the battery capacity rating (mAh), average MCU current consumption (µA) and estimated system operating time (years) shown numerically alongside. The set-up of a complete system simulation, its energy modes, their related operating times and associated peripheral functions and external component current consumption is via an intuitive GUI, consisting of simple drop-down menus, slider bars and checkboxes.

Battery Estimator can perform as the seven most popular battery cell types, built in single cell or user-defined multiple cell series- or parallel-connected configurations. The tool enables the selection and analysis of all five energy modes of the EFM32 Gecko MCU with the entire range of low power peripheral functions.

The energyAware Battery Estimator tool can be as a part of Energy Micro’s comprehensive Simplicity Studio software console, which intended to halve the time it takes to develop a microcontroller application. In addition, it also offers users with the ability to store complete simulation projects for future reference and to help save initial set-up time.

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