Patent ID: 6957158
Filing Date: 2005-10-18
Classification: G01R,G11C

Abstract:
1. An energy device for monitoring electrical energy delivered through an electric circuit, the energy device comprising: a sensor configured to sense an operating characteristic of the electric circuit and generate digital samples indicative of the operating characteristic; a memory coupled to the sensor, the memory including at least one portion of high density non-volatile memory, the memory having an endurance of at least 1,000,000,000 erase events, at least a portion of the memory being configured to store data, wherein the memory is further operative to store operating data and is ready to provide device operations to at least one microprocessor as soon as power is applied to the energy device; at least one data interface; and the microprocessor coupled to the memory and to the data interface, the microprocessor configured to provide the data from the memory to the data interface.