Hi all

I for one have been missing support for RTC that would enable MCU sleep and 
wake up the system via ISR callback when requested. How about making a pull 
request out of this and make it part of RIOT? I'm seeing the copyleft licensing 
is LGPL so it should be good.

 - t

> On 22 Nov 2017, at 8:44, Oleg Artamonov <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> We have two xtimer-like RTC-based timers implemented on STM32L1:
>  
> * https://github.com/unwireddevices/RIOT/tree/loralan-public/sys/rtctimers 
> <https://github.com/unwireddevices/RIOT/tree/loralan-public/sys/rtctimers> — 
> rtctimers for ~1 second to 1 week delays, it uses regular RTC calendar
> * 
> https://github.com/unwireddevices/RIOT/tree/loralan-public/sys/rtctimers-millis
>  
> <https://github.com/unwireddevices/RIOT/tree/loralan-public/sys/rtctimers-millis>
>  — rtctimers-millis for ~1 ms to 1 min delays, it uses RTC_SSR subseconds 
> register (not available on some devices) and RTC calendar seconds register
> * RTC_SSR driver implementation — 
> https://github.com/unwireddevices/RIOT/blob/loralan-public/cpu/stm32l1/periph/rtc.c
>  
> <https://github.com/unwireddevices/RIOT/blob/loralan-public/cpu/stm32l1/periph/rtc.c>
>  
> P.S. On STM32L1, regular XTIMER can not run from 32 kHz clock in stop or 
> standby mode, as all TIMx timers need APB1 clocking. Switching xtimer to RTC 
> clock will degrade its resolution.
>  
> -- 
> Sincerely yours,
> Oleg Artamonov
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>  
>  
>  
> 21.11.2017, 19:27, "Daniel Evans" <[email protected]>:
>> First, I should add that I currently have a working samd21 low power 
>> implementation but to accomplish that I use rtt.c for my always running 
>> clock and then standby sleep the module whenever it gets to the idle task.  
>> This is a hack and is not a clean implementation and means you don’t use 
>> XTIMER and no use of the nice built in protocols, I have my own hacked LoRa 
>> mesh network.
>>  
>> Referring specifically to the samd21, which includes the samr21 and loosely 
>> the saml21, this is the path as I see it for getting low power working 
>> natively with RIOT:
>>  
>> 1) Add a method to make setting up the generic clocks that includes run in 
>> standby and on demand options.
>> 2) Add flags for peripherals so that you can set the clock and run in standby
>> 3) Tweak XTIMER so that it can be run by a low power 32kHz clock when 
>> sleeping
>>  
>> All of these things have been discussed and are in the works and are on the 
>> list but not currently top priority.  Low power is critical for my 
>> application and I am a little surprised it isn’t for more users, but I 
>> imagine others just hack around it as well?
>>  
>> Hope that helps a little,
>>  
>> Dan
>>  
>>  
>>> On Nov 21, 2017, at 6:07 AM, Francisco Molina <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>  
>>> 
>>> >Issues #7743 and #7332 both discuss the problem.
>>> >
>>> >Dan
>>>  
>>> I saw those issues but they only refer to the fact that xtimer doesn't run 
>>> during sleep modes, is that the only issue? Cheers
>>>  
>>> Francisco
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