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14 years ago

Measure Power on DE2

Hi everybody, I am using Altera DE2 board for the implementation of some VHDL designs. I wonder is it possible to find the way to MEASURE the power consumed by the design? Could I, hypothet...
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14 years ago

My idea is to use some oscilloscope with the differential probe.

1) To apply some 1000 input values to the design, to measure differential voltage and to save it in .txt format.

2) Change the probe ends and repeat the procedure.

3) From the saved measured values (in .txt files) calculate MEAN voltage value (Vr_mean)

4) Idesign=Vr_mean/R

5) Pmeasured_total=Idesign*1.2V

6) :cool: