[Tinyos-help] RE: The relationship between radio sleep and CPU

2006-09-05 Thread Yinying Yang
Thanks. My understanding: The receipt of a message from radio can not wake up the CPU from power-save state. But when CPU is in power-save mode, radio can't forward a message. So if I would like to forward a received message to other motes, I should set a timer to wake up the CPU periodically to

[Tinyos-help] Re: The relationship between radio sleep and CPU

2006-09-04 Thread Cormac Duffy
No the radio can operate independently, at least on most platforms, therefor its usually important to have a coordinated duty cycle, between the processor and the radio. Also it is possible to have the processor in a low-power (sleep or idle state) and get the radio to interrupt, (there by