[Tinyos-devel] more bugging about current consumption on MicaZ in tinyos-2.x

Philip Levis pal at cs.stanford.edu
Tue Jul 18 07:53:29 PDT 2006


On Jul 18, 2006, at 12:07 AM, Joe Polastre wrote:

> The ATMega128L used on the MicaZ has a very wide sleep current.  Some
> customers have reported as low as 5uA sleep current while others have
> reported as high as 50-500uA sleep current.  The processor uses a very
> archaic design relative to the new ATMega's and the superior TI MSP430
> processors.

Interesting. Which low power state? I have 20 or so micazs hanging  
around my office; I'll try to test a bunch of them and gather some  
data. I also have some Teloi, so I can do the same for them.

Phil


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