Introduction

This document shows the differences in power consumption between a pure software approach and the use of CIPs for accomplishing different tasks.

This hands-on training covers the following topics:

Assignment 1: Event System Compared to Interrupts
Assignment 2: Software Accumulation Compared to Hardware Accumulation for Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC)

Basic theory related to each assignment is introduced at the beginning of each assignment, the functionality is then verified through the Atmel Studio Data Visualizer.