Evaluating Battery Run-down Performance of Mobile Wireless Devices

Written by Ed Brorein
Agilent Technologies, Inc.

This paper discusses the advantages of measuring battery run-down performance, explores some challenges of traditional approaches, and explains how using the 66319D, 66321D Mobile Communications dc Sources and the 14565B Device Characterization Software for measuring battery run-down performance greatly simplifies a task that is normally time consuming and cumbersome.