You have to include the radio driver even if you do not use it since that puts the radio into sleep mode. Miklos
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 3:58 AM, Ugo Colesanti <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > I'm using two zigbit amp with tinyos based on the latest eth code found > on the old tinyos-contrib cvs. Everything seems to work fine (I receive > and send packets even in LPL) except for one test that I'm used to > perform on new platforms: I burned the Null application (including the > ActiveMessageC component as it should be done for IRIS platforms) and > measured the current draw of the node. Based on the datasheet, the > expected current draw should be lower than 6uA but in my case I'm not > able to reach values below 160uA. I forced MCUSleep to return > ATM128_POWER_DOWN as lowest state and disabled the amplifier pulling low > the PC1 port of the cpu but nothing changed. > I noticed that the CPS pin of the SE2413l (the front-end) stays high > which avoids the fron-end to go in sleep mode and I think that this is > the main reason of the unexpected power consumption. Unfortunately Atmel > does not give the schematics of the ZigBit Amp and I have not been able > to pull this pin low (nor I've been able to understand how bitcloud > manages it). > Does anybody have worked on it and could help me? > > Ugo > > p.s. Janos: I've seen an old post where you say that you've worked on > that module, have you experienced the same issue? > > -- > Ugo Maria Colesanti > Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Automatica e Gestionale "Antonio > Ruberti" > Sapienza Universita' di Roma > Via Ariosto 25, I floor, room B112 > 00185, Rome > http://wiserver.dis.uniroma1.it/cms/index.php/contacts/13-postdoc/4-ugo-colesanti > Phone: +39 06 77274119 > Fax: +39 06 77274002 > > _______________________________________________ > Tinyos-help mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help _______________________________________________ Tinyos-help mailing list [email protected] https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help
