Bench gear
Current and energy profilers such as Nordic's Power Profiler Kit II, Joulescope and Otii. An agent uses them to measure what firmware draws in each state and to check a low-power change.
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43 d ago
platformio.mcp exposes PlatformIO to coding agents as 40 MCP tools in a Python server. Besides builds and serial or OTA flashing, it decodes ESP32 and Cortex-M crash backtraces, reads core dumps, checks partition tables and runs GDB sessions. Its flash-and-verify tool reads the boot log until an expected line or a crash appears. The README shows no board captures.
5 mo ago
mcp-ppk2 connects Claude Code to a Nordic Power Profiler Kit II, which powers the device under test. Its 8 MCP tools capture current at 100 kHz and split each run into boot, radio TX, radio RX, idle and sleep phases. Runs can be compared within a session; flashing happens elsewhere. The README shows example output, not measured captures.
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21 d ago
In September Nordic Semiconductor added skills to its Nordic MCP server that drive a Power Profiler Kit II and SEGGER J-Link probes. The PPK2 skill captures long measurement runs and flags anomalies against a reference pattern; the debug skill runs GDB sessions. The nRF Connect extension for VS Code now shares build context. The post shows no runs.
