5.11 Power Monitor

The MPLAB ICE 4 in-circuit emulator can be a power monitor. Power monitoring means capturing power data, such as current values. This feature uses two independent current sensing channels for measuring and optimizing the power consumption of a design.

Power Monitoring is available for the following Microchip devices: PIC, dsPIC, AVR and SAM MCU.

The emulator works with the MPLAB Data Visualizer to provide plots of power data. As of MPLAB X IDE v5.50, the MPLAB DV plugin is included with the IDE. A separate stand-alone version is also available.

For more on this software, see: MPLAB Data Visualizer Product Page