Ok, if your Null application already includes the ActiveMessageC, then
it will turn off the radio. Then it is something else. Miklos

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Ugo Colesanti
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Miklos, but isn't it the ActiveMessageC component that I already
> included?
>
> Ugo
>
>
> On 09/25/2012 04:21 PM, Miklos Maroti wrote:
>>
>> 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
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>
>
> --
> 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
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