-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said:
| Do you know if the Antaris enters one of the sleep/backup modes | on system power loss? If it does, perhaps it mode switch is triggered by | external firmware. In backup mode it only consumes 8uA, and can | probably remain alive for a long time on with regular large capacitors, | such as the ones in the middle of the board. Yes these seem to be the right thoughts... SRAM cells themselves can hold data with no power for a surprising time. And the firmware in ROM in the GPS chip is closed, so we don't know its criteria for believing that what it finds in the SRAM on powerup is valid and it should try to use it. Situation for backup power on the GPS chip is that backup battery is optional, we did not take the option and seem to have correctly done the recommended steps for no battery. There are two backup-related balls on the GPS chip, we tie VBAT that would take the battery to 0V, and we place 1uF cap on VBAT18 ball. But when power is taken, this net seems to discharge the cap quite quickly. I use the production test software DM2 to test GPS, in this code we use the UBX command CFG-RST to take a dump on the stored settings and reset ourselves again, but still the GPS chip appears willing to hold state across powerdowns. I have asked for support from U-Blox for some other UBX commands that say they can read and write memory in the device randomly, assuming that's possible I will dump and zero that memory using those and see if we can get the GPS chip to act deterministically on powerup without dependency on what happened last session (not too much to ask you would think). - -Andy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkiAVDMACgkQOjLpvpq7dMq4YACfYYa/m/XNWnFdP7WzaTWL8gKg dIUAn3ZumfZC+UumEsOCD/MfJOiY2XrP =nKuq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community