I am executing a code on the MSP430 to run a neural network. To generate the inputs to the network, I need to calculate FFT coefficients of the sound signal captured by an external microphone interfaced with the MSP430. While the code executes and I get the outputs I am looking for, I am trying to optimize the application further for harnessing the ULP capabilities of the device. Once built, I see some advices from the ULP Advisor regarding the floating point and for loop operations in my code. While I have dealt with these advices where they point to my code - the warnings still show up for many other files which are not actually being used by me but are a part of the project since they are in the Include path/options of the project. For example, I use the DSPLibrary for FFT calculations but here, I am not using the matrix functions and yet I see the following warnings since I have "DSPLib/include" as a part of my include options -
Additionally, while I use the driver library for interfacing some buttons and interrupts, I also get ULP warnings for the files which I am not using like the 'aes256.c' or 'cs.c' as follows:
I have two main questions here: Firstly, how much of a difference would removing these warnings actually make in terms of the power consumption of my code? Secondly, if it is indeed significant, what could be a remedy to avoid this? Is it possible to somehow partially include only the required files while discarding the unused ones? I have tried removing some files from these folders which were unused but showed warnings and have also tried to selectively include files in the include options - but in both these cases - the project did not build due to missing files (the same files that I had removed). Please let me know if any more information is needed.
After some analysis, I am leaning towards not using the LEA and in such a scenario, if there is any other way to further optimize power consumption, I definitely want to try and achieve the same. Thank you.
