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Equation 7 · Part 1 · Edge AI Electronics and Sensor Systems in Practice: Quantization, Power Budgets, and Sensor Front Ends

Symbol E_cycle

EcycleE_{\mathrm{cycle}}
EcycleE_{\mathrm{cycle}}

What this part means

the energy spent in one full wake-sense-infer-sleep cycle, the first two terms are housekeeping power integrated over the time spent in each state, and ninfn_{\mathrm{inf}} inferences each cost a measured EinfE_{\mathrm{inf}}.

Its job in the formula

EcE_cycle is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

Where the article explains it

where EcycleE_{\mathrm{cycle}} is the energy spent in one full wake-sense-infer-sleep cycle, the first two terms are housekeeping power integrated over the time spent in each state, and ninfn_{\mathrm{inf}} inferences each cost a measured EinfE_{\mathrm{inf}} .

The passage around this formula

where EcycleE_{\mathrm{cycle}} is the energy spent in one full wake-sense-infer-sleep cycle, the first two terms are housekeeping power integrated over the time spent in each state, and ninfn_{\mathrm{inf}} inferences each cost a measured EinfE_{\mathrm{inf}} . Every term in that expression should be a number taken off a current probe at the actual rail, not a value copied from a component’s datasheet, because sleep current in particular is notorious for being dominated not by the processor but by whichever peripheral, pull-up, or leakage path the design forgot to disable.

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