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Accessing Intel® Power Gadget from Intel® Energy Checker SDK

By Jun De Vega (Intel) (2 posts) on December 15, 2011 at 10:00 am
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Intel® Power Gadget 2.0 can be associated with the Intel® Energy Checker SDK (Intel EC SDK). Used as an ESRV* DAQ module**, the Intel® Power Gadget can provide processor average power (Watt), cumulative energy consumed (Joule) and instantaneous frequency (MHz) as counters. These counter’s values can then be read by any application using the SDK API or [...]

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Intel® Power Gadget - provides processor power and energy usage information on 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ processor (Sandy Bridge) platforms

By Jun De Vega (Intel) (2 posts) on March 30, 2011 at 9:56 am
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It is always a challenge to measure power usage of the processor by software which usually requires special purpose tools or instrumentation along with third party equipment. The 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ processor family (codename Sandy Bridge) offers an energy counter to estimate the power drawn by the processor and Intel® Power Gadget is utilizing [...]

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