Roman, are you running out of CVS or the beta1 rpm? I believe the auto
shutdown feature on the SPI was implemented after beta1.

Running the tinyos-2.x/apps/tests/TestAMOnOff does show the msp430
going into LPM3 mode.

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Jonathan W. Hui
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On 6/20/06, Roman Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In this case the CC2420 code does not release the resource before going
into stop mode?

Vlado Handziski wrote:
> On 6/16/06, *Roman Lim* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>
>     Hello
>
>     I noticed that the calculated lowpowermode in McuSleepC.nc is 1, when
>     there is a initiated radio (via ActiveMessageC), even when the
>     radio is
>     in stopped  state.
>     Responsible for this is the following line in McuSleepC.nc
>     (getPowerState()):
>         ((ME1 & (UTXE0 | URXE0)) && (U0TCTL & SSEL1))
>
>     Is it necessary to keep the uart running when the radio is set to
>     sleep
>     mode?
>     I tried to force the OS to go to lowpower mode 3, even if the
>     uart0 is
>     configured for radio. In this setup it was no problem to stop and
>     start
>     the CC2420 and send packets.
>
>
> Before the MCU can go to LPM3, the USART needs to be disabled. This
> should be done by the implicit power manager (TEP 115) using
> AsyncStdControl of the HplMsp430UsartxP.nc once all the clients
> release the USART. So, as long as the CC2420 code releases the
> resource before going into stop mode, the getPowerState() should work
> OK. Don't be confused by the UTXE0 and URXE0 names in the check. URXE0
> is the same location as USPIE0 so the check covers potential use of
> SMCLK both in Uart and Spi mode.
>
> Vlado

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