Ok, thank you very much.

I'm going to try reception with AVR off.

Regards,
Carlos

2009/3/10 Janos Sallai <[email protected]>

> The external clock input pin of the MCU is XTAL1, however the iris has
> an external crystal hooked up there... This means that the clock
> output of the transceiver is not connected to the MCU.
>
> Regarding power saving: The MCU will go to sleep if there the task
> queue is empty and no peripherals that require the MCU to be on are
> used. Typically, this is the case when the mote is idle and the
> transceiver is receiving.
>
> Note that the MCU is woken up at least four times per second (when the
> 1024Hz 8-bit timer overflows).
>
> Janos
>
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Carlos Gil Soriano
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > we have received a small quantity of IRIS motes and then we have started
> to
> > work with them.
> >
> > As the ATMEL AT86RF230 datasheet says, it is possible to set the CLKM of
> the
> > radio up as the clock of the microcontroller. In that case, if the radio
> is
> > in a reception state and the microcontroller is not running an
> application
> > is possible to power down the microcontroller but keep on the reception
> > state. If a new frame is received, the radio is able to wake up the
> > microcontroller. So, a power saving strategy could be implemented.
> >
> > In order to achive that, it is necessary to program CLKM with a correct
> > frecuency (such as 4MHz or 8MHz for IRIS mote). But looking up into the
> code
> > (HplRF230.h), I have found that TRX_CTRL_0_VALUE is set to 0 instead of
> 0x03
> > or 0x04, for instance. With this configuration it is not possible to turn
> > off the microcontroller from the radio.
> >
> > Is it possible to configure that kind of operation?
> >
> > I also have tried to find out the schematics of IRIS so as to know if
> both
> > radio and microcontroller share CLKM, but I've found nothing.
> >
> > Is there any schematic of IRIS platform?
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Carlos
> >
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