A portable platform to estimate power consumption of software modules

Abstract

Researchers perform various hardware and software tests in order to measure power consumption of mobile devices, network modules and embedded system solutions. In this paper, we discuss a portable platform to measure changes in power consumption. We run several tests on this platform to compute CPU utilization by the test programs and the operating system and relate it with execution time and memory utilization. Using the data obtained, we use regression analysis to relate power consumption with CPU utilization.