Hi everyone,
I currently do a project in designing an electronics circuits about hardware tester. This hardware tester should be used for testing some/all peripherals of MCU. The aim why I would like to make it was I want to have device which can be used to check whether the MCU is still good OK or need a replacement.
I have already made the hardware and now I would like to make it portable by powering it with some batteries so then I can used it wherever I am. Since here I got a problem, I could not get a specific value of power consumption that my hardware tester needed. To get it answered, I have tried to measure the current which flow from my batteries to the circuit and I got a value in mA rating. I did it by wiring a multimeter and load (my hardware tester) in series with batteries like shown in image below.
My question is, What have I done lead me to get an exact result of power consumption or Did I miss something?
All of this test I did after the hardware is made, So, My other big question was, Is there a way or method that I can do/follow to estimate the power consumption of my hardware such a simulations before it send to manufacture?
I look forward for your reply and thank you
best regards
Amh
I currently do a project in designing an electronics circuits about hardware tester. This hardware tester should be used for testing some/all peripherals of MCU. The aim why I would like to make it was I want to have device which can be used to check whether the MCU is still good OK or need a replacement.
I have already made the hardware and now I would like to make it portable by powering it with some batteries so then I can used it wherever I am. Since here I got a problem, I could not get a specific value of power consumption that my hardware tester needed. To get it answered, I have tried to measure the current which flow from my batteries to the circuit and I got a value in mA rating. I did it by wiring a multimeter and load (my hardware tester) in series with batteries like shown in image below.
My question is, What have I done lead me to get an exact result of power consumption or Did I miss something?
All of this test I did after the hardware is made, So, My other big question was, Is there a way or method that I can do/follow to estimate the power consumption of my hardware such a simulations before it send to manufacture?
I look forward for your reply and thank you
best regards
Amh