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  • Meditech: Battery test

    After a full-discharge the battery used for testing has been recharged with the simple circuit mentioned in the post Powering the camera probe for few hours to test if the charging circuit, experimental and very simple, may have problems . Test conditions…
  • More low power firmware concepts

    This week I'm continuing with some of low power firmware concepts. It may seem counterintuitive but some of the concepts I've used for low power firmware are the same things I did for the firmware on high performance disk controllers. To a large degree…
  • Low power firmware design

    I'm starting a series of posts on the blog about low power firmware design. For many products the firmware will determine if the power consumption or battery life goals are met yet firmware is often not even discussed in articles on low power design.…
  • Low power design resource

    Last month I started a Low Power Design blog as a forum for engineers to exchange their experiences with battery-power and low-power design. Nearly all the information on the Internet about low-power design is hardware oriented yet firmware will often…