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MAGEEC needs to carry out a huge number of energy measurements, which requires using many target machines at once.  This in turn requires many sets of energy measurement kit.  Existing general purpose tools were far too expensive, so we designed our own.  
http://youtu.be/mpEI5E8gyec
 
  
Photos:
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[[File:Energymonitor1.jpg|700px|Image of the Energy Monitor]]
File:Energy_Shield.jpg|Energy Monitoring Shield
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File:Energy_Shield_on_F4.jpg|Energy Monitoring Shield attatched to an ARM STM32F4 board
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Full details are provided in the [[workshop]] on using the board.
  
==Design of Power Sensing Shield Board for STM32F4DISCOVERY==
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==Design of the energy measurement board ==
  
In order to provide the power sensing for the ARM Cortex M4F target hardware, University of Bristol has designed and built an add-on PCB for the ST STM32F4DISCOVERY development board.
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The board was designed by Simon Hollis at the University of Brsitol as an add-on PCB for the STM32F4DISCOVERY development board from ST Microelectronics.
  
 
The add-on operates very much like the common 'shield' concept, as popularised by other platforms. It is designed specifically to require no user build or soldering: it is plug-on.
 
The add-on operates very much like the common 'shield' concept, as popularised by other platforms. It is designed specifically to require no user build or soldering: it is plug-on.
  
Details on the construction of this board can be found in [[Deliverable 3.1]] and [[Deliverable 3.2]]
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Details on the construction of this board can be found in [[Deliverable 3.1]] and [[Deliverable 3.2]].
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== Legacy Boards ==
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The current design is now the fourth iteration.  It drew on our experience with earlier boards.  Here is a [http://youtu.be/mpEI5E8gyec video] of the very first board, which had a single measurement point.
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These photos show the shield unmounted and mounted:
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File:Energy_Shield.jpg|Energy Monitoring Shield
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File:Energy_Shield_on_F4.jpg|Energy Monitoring Shield attatched to an ARM STM32F4 board
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</gallery>
  
 
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[[Category:Media]] [[Category:Design]]

Revision as of 08:58, 3 February 2015

MAGEEC needs to carry out a huge number of energy measurements, which requires using many target machines at once. This in turn requires many sets of energy measurement kit. Existing general purpose tools were far too expensive, so we designed our own.

Image of the Energy Monitor

Full details are provided in the workshop on using the board.

Design of the energy measurement board

The board was designed by Simon Hollis at the University of Brsitol as an add-on PCB for the STM32F4DISCOVERY development board from ST Microelectronics.

The add-on operates very much like the common 'shield' concept, as popularised by other platforms. It is designed specifically to require no user build or soldering: it is plug-on.

Details on the construction of this board can be found in Deliverable 3.1 and Deliverable 3.2.

Legacy Boards

The current design is now the fourth iteration. It drew on our experience with earlier boards. Here is a video of the very first board, which had a single measurement point.

These photos show the shield unmounted and mounted: