One-Box IoT Battery Emulation Platform Speeds, Simplifies Testing

April 4, 2023

Keysight's emulation and profiling solution identifies the impact of variables affecting the battery drain of IoT devices to enable designers to create better power systems.

Alix Paultre

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Keysight Technologies launched the E36731A Battery Emulator and Profiler, an emulation solution that identifies the impact of variables affecting the battery drain of IoT devices, arming development engineers with the information they need to improve device designs.

The battery emulator and profiler addresses the battery-testing demands of IoT device designers by giving them an integrated electronic load and power supply that can be used to emulate battery performance. Along with the company's PathWave BenchVue Advanced Battery Test and Emulation Software, it provides a complete solution to generate battery profiles, with better accuracy compared to using generic manufacturer models

Furthermore, the platform allows development engineers to instantly transition a battery's charge state and gain real-time insight into current drain. The solution provides power up to 200 W at 30 V and 20 A, and offers a wide dynamic measurement range from microamps to amps.

Alix Paultre | Editor-at-Large, Electronic Design

An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the US military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications in the embedded electronic engineering space. Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Also check out his YouTube watch-collecting channel, Talking Timepieces.