energyAware Profiler ensures energy efficient code creation

Oslo, Norway and ESC, San Jose, Ca, April 27th, 2010 – Energy Micro® has launched a companion energy debugging tool for its 32-bit ARM®Cortex™-M3-based energy friendly microcontroller kits. Called the energyAware™ Profiler, the Windows software reads the kits’ Advanced Energy Monitoring (AEM) system data and enables simple graphical visualization and optimization of application energy consumption and code.

Interfacing via USB with both the EFM®32 Gecko development kit and low cost starter kit, the patent pending energyAware Profiler complements the kits’ on-board AEM LCD display and provides three simultaneous views; a graph of real-time application current consumption, an object code listing and an energy profile of individual application functions.

Clicking anywhere on the current graph takes the user to the associated object code, to reveal the function responsible for the related current consumption. During code execution all application functions are individually profiled and sorted by overall energy consumption. The user can pause the real-time log at any time, scale and scroll-through the current graph and export data for further analysis.

Energy Micro CTO Øyvind Janbu commented, "The energyAware Profiler is a significant step forward for the development of energy efficient code. Many weeks of debugging and optimization effort are quite literally translated into a short series of queries that deliver instant answers."

The energyAware Profiler software is available as a free download at http://www.energymicro.com/downloads. An introductory video can be viewed at http://www.energymicro.com/videos.

Energy Micro launched its first product family, the ARM® Cortex™-M3 based EFM32 Gecko microcontroller family in October 2009. Consuming less than a quarter of the energy of existing 8-, 16- or 32-bit microcontrollers the product has been cited as the world’s most energy friendly microcontroller.

Energy Micro is a finalist in this year’s EE Times Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Awards in the Startup of the Year category. The company last month received Elektronik’s Product of the Year Award in Germany, and the Embedded Award for Hardware at the Embedded World 2010 Exhibition & Conference in Nuremberg.

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About Energy Micro
Energy Micro develops, markets and sells the world's most energy friendly microcontrollers, based on the industry leading ARM® Cortex™-M3 32-bit architecture. The company was founded in 2007 by experienced semiconductor professionals with previous expertise from Chipcon, Texas Instruments, Atmel and Nordic Semiconductor. More information on Energy Micro is available at www.energymicro.com

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