Mobile terminal and power consumption detection method of mobile terminal
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsHuiling Wu, Yong Peng
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Abstract
Disclosed are a mobile terminal and a power consumption detection method of the mobile terminal, the mobile terminal including: a power consumption measurement circuit; an application processor configured to transmit a detection command for detecting power consumption data respectively corresponding to at least one hardware module of a plurality of hardware modules of the mobile terminal; and a microprocessor configured to acquire the power consumption data corresponding to the at least one hardware module through the power consumption measurement circuit, based on the detection command received from the application processor.
Claims18
A mobile terminal, comprising:
- a power consumption measurement circuit configured to measure power consumption of one or more hardware modules, among a plurality of hardware modules of the mobile terminal;
- an application processor configured to transmit a detection command for detecting power consumption of a first hardware module, among the plurality of hardware modules;
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- a microprocessor configured to obtain first power consumption data corresponding to the first hardware module from the power consumption measurement circuit, based on the detection command received from the application processor,
- wherein the power consumption measurement circuit comprises:
- a plurality of resistors respectively connected to the plurality of hardware modules;
- at least one multiplexer (MUX) connected to the plurality of resistors;
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- at least one analog-to-digital converter (ADC) respectively connected to the at least one MUX, and configured to detect first voltage data corresponding to a first resistor connected to the first hardware module, from among the plurality of resistors.
A power consumption detection method of a mobile terminal, the mobile terminal comprising an application processor, a microprocessor and a power consumption measurement circuit, the power consumption detection method comprising:
- transmitting, by the application processor, a detection command for detecting power consumption of a first hardware module of a plurality of hardware modules of the mobile terminal;
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- obtaining, by the microprocessor, first power consumption data corresponding to the first hardware module from the power consumption measurement circuit, based on the detection command received from the application processor,
- wherein the power consumption measurement circuit includes a plurality of resistors respectively connected to the plurality of hardware modules, at least one multiplexer (MUX) connected to the plurality of resistors, and at least one analog-to-digital converter (ADC) respectively connected to the at least one MUX, and
- wherein the obtaining the first power consumption data corresponding to the first hardware module from the power consumption measurement circuit comprises detecting first voltage data corresponding to a first resistor, connected to the first hardware module, among the plurality of resistors by the at least one ADC.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.