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+# msp430-etv – MSP430 EnergyTrace Visualizer
+
+msp430-etv is a wrapper around
+[energytrace-util](https://github.com/carrotIndustries/energytrace-util) to
+simplify aggregation, visualization and basic analysis of EnergyTrace
+measurements.
+
+Measumerents can be taken directly or loaded from energytrace-util output.
+Data belonging to startup code whose power consumption is not of interest can
+be skipped.
+
+msp430-etv supports plotting the power consumption (calculated from voltage and
+current data) and writing mean voltage, current, and power as well as total
+energy for a given measurement to stdout.
+
+## Dependencies
+
+* [energytrace-util](https://github.com/carrotIndustries/energytrace-util)
+  and libmsp430.so
+* Python 3 with matplotlib and numpy