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    Low power MSP430F2618 not able to reduce current below 900uA

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    Rakesh Muralidharan
    Posted by Rakesh Muralidharan
    on Aug 01 2012 12:51 PM
    Intellectual850 points

    Hi

    I was using the Evaluation module for MSP430F2618

    My application needs CPU to be active and must have low power. For this purpose i tried out a small program to run uC at a low clock rate

    I modified one example code of MSP430F2618

    #include  <msp430x26x.h>

    void main(void)
    {
      WDTCTL = WDTPW + WDTHOLD;                 // Stop WDT
      BCSCTL3 |= LFXT1S1 ;
      BCSCTL2 |= (SELM1+SELM0+SELS);
     
      ADC12CTL0 = SHT0_2 + ADC12ON;             // Set sampling time, turn on ADC12
      ADC12CTL1 = SHP+ ADC12SSEL1;                          // Use sampling timer
      ADC12IE = 0x01;                           // Enable interrupt
      ADC12CTL0 |= ENC;                         // Conversion enabled
      P6DIR &= 0x01;                            // P6.0, i/p
      P6SEL |= 0x01;                            // P6.0-ADC option select
      //P1DIR |= 0x01;                            // P1.0 output-LED

      for (;;)
      {
        ADC12CTL0 |= ADC12SC;                   // Start convn, software controlled
        _BIS_SR(CPUOFF + GIE);                  // LPM0, ADC12_ISR will force exit
      }
    }

    // ADC12 interrupt service routine
    #pragma vector=ADC12_VECTOR
    __interrupt void ADC12_ISR (void)
    {
        //if (ADC12MEM0 < 0x7FF)
          //P1OUT &= ~0x01;                       // Clear P1.0 LED off
        //else
          //P1OUT |= 0x01;                        // Set P1.0 LED on
        _BIC_SR_IRQ(CPUOFF);                    // Clear CPUOFF bit from 0(SR)
    }

    I am always getting a current consumption of 900uA @ 3V

    This is way above the CPU limits. Also when I put break point in the program the device current reduces to 200uA

    Please let me know how to make CPU work in lower clock rate

    Low power MSP430F2618
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    • Jens-Michael Gross
      Posted by Jens-Michael Gross
      on Aug 01 2012 15:08 PM
      Guru141810 points

      Rakesh Muralidharan
      I am always getting a current consumption of 900uA @ 3V
      This is way above the CPU limits. Also when I put break point in the program the device current reduces to 200uA


      No wonder. In your ISR, you do not clear the IFG bit that has caused the interrupt or read the ADC12MEM register that caused the interrupt (which would clear the bit too). So your ISR exits, but then enters the ISR again right away. It never sleeps. It is running on 100% load, trying to handle an interrupt over and over again that simply isn't ever handled by the ISR.

      See the ADC12IFG register description in the users guide.
      (the ADC10 is different: it only has one IFG bit as it has only one result register, and it is auto-cleared when the ISR is entered)

      When you place a breakpoiont, the CPu stops (of course, as this is the intention of a breakpoint) and current drops.

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