Intel® PowerInformer

Have you ever noticed a sudden drop in the battery life of your laptop, and suspect it’s the result of the application you installed last week?

Have you ever wondered whether your application satisfies that 2-hour while-on-battery runtime requirement?

Have you ever tried to use Perfmon to gather power related statistics and given up after suffering serious information overload?

PowerInformer is a tool developed to provide basic power relevant statistics to a developer. They can use these statistics to optimize their application such that it matches battery life constraints (e.g. the game must run for at least 90 minutes on a notebook with a 56 W hr battery) while also meeting performance requirements.

Some of the main features include calculating the average residency and the percentage time of the C1, C2 and C3 states of all logical processors.  Also, the screen layout has been redesigned to accommodate more data and to make it look better.  Finally, important data such as disk and file I/O operations have been added to provide more information about the system power consumption.

PowerInformer Features (full list):

• Battery and power status indicators
• Processor (physical, core and logical) detection
• Support for both Windows* XP and Vista*
• Percentage time of C1, C2 and C3 states of the system and of all logical processors
• Average residency of C1, C2 and C3 states of the system and of all logical processors
• Percentage time of the system and of all logical processors
• Percentage time of the P stages of the system
• System calls per second
• Interrupt rate of the system
• Disk I/O operation (access, read and write) rates
• File I/O operation (control, read and write) rates

What is in the PowerInformer Package:

• The application
• User’s guide
• Release Notes
• End user licenses

Download the PoweInformer Package here.