Battery Drain Measurements with LabVIEW
Application Notes
Introduction
The demand for measuring, validating, and analyzing battery drain is growing due to greater power consumption of the latest generation of higher performance mobile wireless devices. Manually setting up test conditions and making corresponding battery drain measurements is overly time consuming. The advantages of having a flexible software and hardware platform for automating battery drain measurements include drastically reducing test time and improving repeatability, among other things. Finding an existing solution tailored for this application provides such advantages without the need for extensive test software development.
Problem
Creating a flexible software platform for battery drain measurement and analysis requires considerable development effort that takes many months or longer. Popular client programs such as the Keysight Technologies, Inc. VEE or National Instruments LabVIEW assist by reducing test development time. Being generic test executives however, they still require a great deal of programming to tailor them into an optimized automated solution for the task of battery drain measurement and analysis.