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Energy debugging is now a circular development cycle where developers can use Energy Micro's hardware and software tools together with EFM32 MCUs to achieve the lowest energy consumption in their applications (Figure 2). The developer can iteratively debug the code towards energy friendliness with instant feedback on the applied changes.

These energy pitfalls can now be avoided with Energy Micro's patent pending toolset for advanced energy debugging. The simple and affordable solution presented by Energy Micro enables developers to identify and remove energy bugs with a high degree of accuracy.

Real-time information on current consumption is correlated with program counter sampling to provide advanced energy monitoring capabilities. Energy friendly embedded systems development can be seen as a three stage cycle: hardware debugging, software functionality debugging and software energy debugging.

Battery management systems (BMS) enhances the performance and ensures the safety of a battery pack composed of multiple cells. Functional safety is critical as lithium-Ion batteries pose a significant safety hazard when operated outside their safe operating area.

Energy consumption is simply the area below the current trace, so the smaller the area the smaller the energy drain. This is achieved by reducing the current consumption and the time the MCU takes to execute tasks. It is therefore easy to realize how important the time factor is for energy debugging.

Good debugging requires an understanding of the laws of physics and how circuits work - sometimes even down to the component level. The more time you spend debugging circuits the better you get both at debugging and design. The best design principals for electrical systems are usually extracted from debugging boards.