Measurement of current variations for the estimation of software-related power consumption

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1206-1212

  Laopoulos, Theodore ^a   Neofotistos, Periklis ^a   Kosmatopoulos, C A ^a   Nikolaidis, Spiridon ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Current measurement; Low power design; Microprocessors; Power consumption

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DIGITAL CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS;

EMBEDDED PROCESSING CIRCUITS; POWER CONSUMPTION;

ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0141919672     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2003.816837     Document Type: Article

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