Stefan Mileschin

BaseMark has traditionally been a software company. We've seen and used a lot of their benchmarking test suites including BaseMark OS and BaseMark X. Seeking to expand its portfolio by not only providing software benchmarks to quantify performance of devices, BaseMark looks to provide hardware to enable users to measure power-consumption and power-efficiency of devices. Here is where the PAT (Power Assessment Tool) comes in. The PAT is a tool that doesn't require destructive dismantlement of a device to be able to measure its power consumption. This is an area where I'm particularly familiar with as over the last year and more have been instrumenting a lot of smartphones via external power supplies and measurement equipment by physically opening them and replacing the lithium power cells.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10111/...sessement-tool