MicroChip PAC1944 Energy Monitor Development Board
by John Legg June 30, 2021
Monitoring the power of energy-sensitive applications has become increasingly important. Microchip have developed the PAC1944, a Quad-Channel DC Power Monitor, which is suitable for such applications.
It can monitor the voltage, current and power of a system and issue alerts for over-voltage, power and current. In addition, electrical power can be measured over time to calculate Energy Consumed.
The device can be controlled over an I2C or SMBus interface by the host MCU.
MikroE has made it easy to evaluate and build prototypes with the PAC1944 Click Board, purchased from The Debug Store.
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Over 1000 Click Boards are now available from The Debug Store. We also supply over one hundred MCU development boards and intelligent displays fitted with mikroBUS sockets, the universal interface for the Click Board.
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