Lpc2000

I am impressed that you can drive RS-232 at ONE uA.

Richard

--- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, Owen Mooney <ojm@s...> wrote:
> Previous posts on this site by Robert (Philips Apps) indicated a power 
> down current for the LPC2138 of about
> 50 uA in addtion to a RTC current of 20 uA.
> 
> The data sheet "LPC2131_32_34_36_38_2.pdf"  revison 20050516 indicates 
> 60 uA Typ, 500uA max at 85degrees
> 
> I would really like to know how to achieve this because the best I have 
> achieved is 700 uA. This is with just a micro + Xtals + caps + a
> RS232 converter circuit measured at 1 uA
> 
> I have based my design decision about this consumption - If it can't be 
> achieved I need to find another micro, buy tools and re-layout!!!!!.
> 
> I am not the only person to find this. Correspondence with another
group 
> member below.
> 
> Any information would be most welcome
> 
> Owen Mooney
> 
> Correspondence:
> ------------------------------------------
> Hi "relentless_6995"
> 
> I am mailing you because you put a post on the LPC2000 group
> 
> I am trying to put a LPC2138 into power down mode, but I am getting 700 
> micramps
> consumption. I've done the obvious things:  put unused ports as outputs 
> to prevent parasitics
> checked the uart circuit (less that 1 uA) the only other things on the 
> board are the 2 xtals and their caps!
> 
> What power consumption did you get? and any hints?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Owen Mooney
> ------------------------------------------
> 
> Owen,
> 
> Well that's curious - cause I also was able to only get down to 700uA as
> well. I stopped at that point cause that will probably be okay for
this app
> but that is a lot higher than I expected. I do not have the RTC
powered as
> you might (you mentioned 2 xtals). I also hunted for floating inputs.
> Powered down all the peripherals (though that seemed to make no
difference).
> Not sure what to try next.
> 
> I really would like to know what it "should be".
> 
> Can you copy our text so far to the group? Perhaps we could get further
> along.
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Bob Destremps