[TriEmbed] ucurrent etc.

[Pete Soper]

The next move for the mud fuelcell project will be a switch to a TI
CC1310. Yes, expensive, way more complex than it needs to be, etc. But
I'm not making something for mass production and the "devil I know" 
factor is more important than saving bucks. Not that I don't want to
explore SiLabs chips some day, but I need more powerful motivation. It's
been hard work developing workarounds for the 47 different screwball
failure modes of the TI tools I'm using and switching to something that
"just works" would make me feel bad. :-)

-Pete

On 2/15/19 4:27 PM, John Wettroth via TriEmbed wrote:
> I've been using a SiLabs Eval board for their "Bee" series 8051 derivatives.
> Built into the Simplicity Studio software and their boards is a thing called
> "{Advanced Energy Monitor Mode" and Energy Monitor Mode that plots current
> consumption on your PC.  If you're using their MCU's, it will correlate the
> current with your code- pretty cool.  The eval boards cost about $30 and you
> can take the SiLabs part off the board and use the current measuring
> function by itself.  Its very well done.  Link:
> https://www.silabs.com/products/development-tools/software/simplicity-studio
>  go to the bottom of the page, center and you'll see energy profiler. 
>
> You can get an eval board from Mouseror DK- there are many that have the
> feature- I have the SLSTK2020A for the BB1.
>
> User guide link:  The Energy profiler is in section 8.  Basically an
> integrated uCurrent.
>
> https://www.silabs.com/documents/public/user-guides/ug236-efm8bb1-slstk2020a
> .pdf
>
> Pete- these micro's especially the Busy Bee might be a alternative to the
> MSP430- very, very low current consumption, really good C compiler (Keil)
> and super cheap - about a buck.  These EV-Kits are an amazing deal
> themselves.  I've been playing with them for a bit and give you a little
> help.  Chris Svec also worked at SiLabs and is familiar with them.
>
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