Electronic – Best way to determine power consumption of a microcontroller

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What is the best way to determine the power consumption of a microcontroller? Need to select the right voltage regulator to supply 3.3V for PIC32MX795F512H.

Best Answer

Microcontroller current consumption is dependent on the software so if you actually want to know it, you need your software first.

But if you just want to size a regulator then the current consumption for various clock speeds and generalized configurations should be listed somewhere in the datasheet under electrical specifications.

In this case, it is on table 31-5: enter image description here