SLAU893B October 2023 – July 2024 MSPM0C1103 , MSPM0C1103-Q1 , MSPM0C1104 , MSPM0C1104-Q1
The DEBUGSS in MSPM0 devices supports EnergyTrace technology. EnergyTrace technology enables power profiling of MCU devices running application code. This is very useful when developing an application which must be optimized for low-power operation.
Development tools from Texas Instruments, including the MSPM0 LaunchPad development tools, support hardware energy measurement of the target MSPM0 over time through EnergyTrace charge counting. This mechanism enables a developer to obtain an energy usage profile for an application, based on real current measurements with a wide dynamic range.
To give context to the energy measurements made by the hardware development tools supporting EnergyTrace technology, MSPM0 MCUs also enable EnergyTrace+. EnergyTrace+ is a component of the DEBUGSS that lets the debug probe log the state of the processor (RUN, SLEEP) and the current program counter value while the device is running. This state information can be then overlaid with energy measurements to determine if the cause of high current is the processor running or some other activity on the device.
TI's Code Composer Studio integrated development environment provides out-of-the-box support for EnergyTrace energy measurement and EnergyTrace+ processor state logging with MSPM0 devices.