MSP430G2553 LPM4 works by current doesn't go bellow ~ 75 ?A

[Fmilburn 446]

@@rord100

 

It isn't possible for others to replicate your findings since you are using a custom board with multiple things attached.  Can you recreate your findings on a G2 LaunchPad?  Try attaching the bells and whistles one thing at a time to isolate and see what might be causing it.

 

Since you are using Energia, have you tried the functions that it makes available?  i.e.  sleep(), sleepSeconds(), suspend() and wakeup()?  See for example this tutorial - it also demonstrates low power measurement with EnergyTrace and CCS.  Note that at this time CCS does not support Energia v18 so use an earlier version.

[greeeg 460]

P1_7, P1_6, P2_4, P2_3 are all connected to LEDs as your schematic shows.

 

If you are using pull-downs on these pins you will probably have a small current flowing through these LEDs.

Likely not enough to light them, but larger than the power drawn by the MSP430.

[NurseBob 111]

Regarding the RST pin - typically the '430 devices want a pullup resistor between Vcc and RST.  If it's not on the board, the device won't run.  Also, your NC1-6 pins - are they all defined as PxOUT low and the PxDIR high? That's one  low power configuration for "unconnected pins" page 41 of the family user guide. slau144j.pdf

 

Secton 2.5 Connection of Unused Pins
The correct termination of all unused pins is listed in Table 2-3.

Px.0 to Px.7 Open Switched to port function, output direction or input with pullup/pulldown enabled
RST/NMI DVCC or VCC 47 k? pullup...

[rord100 1]

P1_7, P1_6, P2_4, P2_3 are all connected to LEDs as your schematic shows.

 

If you are using pull-downs on these pins you will probably have a small current flowing through these LEDs.

Likely not enough to light them, but larger than the power drawn by the MSP430.

Hi Greeeg,

 

Thank you for your meticulousness and good comment. I changed the code accordingly  and the current consumption during LPM4 is now  ~ 0.29 ?A.

Attached bellow is the amended code:

void setup()
{
pinMode(P1_0,INPUT_PULLDOWN);   
pinMode(P1_1,INPUT_PULLDOWN);  
pinMode(P1_2,INPUT_PULLDOWN);  
        //pinMode(P1_3,INPUT_PULLDOWN);          This input will be set later 
pinMode(P1_4,INPUT_PULLDOWN);  
pinMode(P1_5,INPUT_PULLDOWN);  
pinMode(P1_6,INPUT_PULLUP);                  //LED  
pinMode(P1_7,INPUT_PULLUP);                 //LED  
  
pinMode(P2_0,INPUT_PULLDOWN);
pinMode(P2_1,INPUT_PULLDOWN);
pinMode(P2_2,INPUT_PULLDOWN);
// pinMode(P2_3,INPUT_PULLUP);            // LED This input will be set to   output
pinMode(P2_4,INPUT_PULLUP);              // LED connected
pinMode(P2_5,INPUT_PULLDOWN);         //  NC
pinMode(P2_6,INPUT_PULLDOWN);
pinMode(P2_7,INPUT_PULLDOWN);

pinMode(P1_3,INPUT_PULLDOWN); //I changed this from pinMode(P1_3,INPUT_PULLUP); 
pinMode(P2_3,OUTPUT);       //Enable output on P1_0 (onboard red LED) The P2_3 is where one of my LEDs is connected
attachInterrupt(P1_3,Interrupt, RISING); //I changed this  changed from attachInterrupt(P1_3,Interrupt, FALLING);
}

void loop()
{
  LPM4;     //whenever the loop runs, switch back into LPM4
                //we could put code here that would run after every Interrupt - see warning in text.
}

void Interrupt(void)   //Our interrupt routine
{
  digitalWrite(P2_3,!digitalRead(P2_3));  //toggle the red LED
};

[rord100 1]

Regarding the RST pin - typically the '430 devices want a pullup resistor between Vcc and RST.  If it's not on the board, the device won't run.  Also, your NC1-6 pins - are they all defined as PxOUT low and the PxDIR high? That's one  low power configuration for "unconnected pins" page 41 of the family user guide. slau144j.pdf

 

Secton 2.5 Connection of Unused Pins

The correct termination of all unused pins is listed in Table 2-3.

 

Px.0 to Px.7 Open Switched to port function, output direction or input with pullup/pulldown enabled

RST/NMI DVCC or VCC 47 k? pullup...

Hi NurseBob

 

Thank you for your most educating remark. I was not aware of the family user guide. slau144j.pdf at all.

I changed my target board HW accordingly (attached bellow). I tied the RST pin to Vcc via a 47K resistor and the devise is running. I defined the GPIOs

as in the the code I previously posted to Greeeg above with current consumption of 0.29 ?A.

Is there anything else I can do, in your opinion  to lower current consumption to  0.1 ?A ?

Thank you

 

 

 

Low Power circuit.pdf

[rord100 1]

@@rord100

 

It isn't possible for others to replicate your findings since you are using a custom board with multiple things attached.  Can you recreate your findings on a G2 LaunchPad?  Try attaching the bells and whistles one thing at a time to isolate and see what might be causing it.

 

Since you are using Energia, have you tried the functions that it makes available?  i.e.  sleep(), sleepSeconds(), suspend() and wakeup()?  See for example this tutorial - it also demonstrates low power measurement with EnergyTrace and CCS.  Note that at this time CCS does not support Energia v18 so use an earlier version.

Hi Fmilburn,

 

Thank you for your remark. I tried your example, in the  tutorial you mentioned  above, on a brand - new MSP-EXP430G Luanchpad with a Fluke 187 multimeter connected in series with the Vcc pins of J3 after the jumper was removed and the circuit consumed 0.22 ?A during suspend mode. which is nice.

Is there anything to do in your opinion  to lower current consumption to  0.1 ?A ?

 

[roadrunner84 466]

As on page 23 of the datasheet you should lower the voltage of your device as much as possible, probably to 1.8V to attain the lowest power consumption possible, as well as the temperature.

Even then, the typical current is 0.1uA, the max is 0.5uA.

[Fmilburn 446]

Somebody can correct me if I am wrong, but I seem to remember that the 20 pin G2553 has Port 3 internally, it just can't be accessed.  Accordingly, those should be pulled low also.  You will either have to add them to Energia in pins.h, or access the registers directly.  As roadrunner84 says, lowering the voltage and slowing down the clocks reduces power also.

[NurseBob 111]

Somebody can correct me if I am wrong, but I seem to remember that the 20 pin G2553 has Port 3 internally, it just can't be accessed.  Accordingly, those should be pulled low also.  You will either have to add them to Energia in pins.h, or access the registers directly.  As roadrunner84 says, lowering the voltage and slowing down the clocks reduces power also.

If I remember correctly, the OP was in LPM4 - there shouldn't be any clocks...

On non-energia projects, even at 3.3V, I've seen my msp430F2013 at or below 0.1uA in LMP4.  Having not run similar code on a G2553, I don't know if the same holds true, though.

[Fmilburn 446]

 

If I remember correctly, the OP was in LPM4 - there shouldn't be any clocks...

On non-energia projects, even at 3.3V, I've seen my msp430F2013 at or below 0.1uA in LMP4.  Having not run similar code on a G2553, I don't know if the same holds true, though.

You are right of course about the clocks in LPM4.  I was thinking more in general I guess.  Almost all of my contraptions have needed to wake up on their own at intervals....

[rord100 1]

@@rord100

 

It isn't possible for others to replicate your findings since you are using a custom board with multiple things attached.  Can you recreate your findings on a G2 LaunchPad?  Try attaching the bells and whistles one thing at a time to isolate and see what might be causing it.

 

Since you are using Energia, have you tried the functions that it makes available?  i.e.  sleep(), sleepSeconds(), suspend() and wakeup()?  See for example this tutorial - it also demonstrates low power measurement with EnergyTrace and CCS.  Note that at this time CCS does not support Energia v18 so use an earlier version.

Hi Fmilburn,

Thank you for your remark.  I tested your suggested code on new MSP-EXP430G using Fluke 187 multimeter connected in series to the Vcc pins of J3 after the jumper was removed and I measured 0.27 ?A which is good.  Is there anything else I can do, in your opinion,  to lower current consumption to  0.1 ?A ?

 

Here is your the code I used:

/* 
  This example was derived from a posting by  fmilburn3 
  Demonstrates a way to utilize LaunchPad low power modes with the
  sleep(), sleepSeconds(), suspend() and wakeup() functions in
  Energia. The LaunchPad will blink the red LED 3 times and 
  demonstrate sleep() and sleepSeconds().  It then goes into suspend()
  but will wake up and start over again if the button is pushed.
  sleep() and sleepSeconds() use LPM3. suspend() uses LPM4.
  This example was derived from a posting   by @[member=spirilis] at 43oh.com
  Created by Frank Milburn June 2015
  Released into the public domain
*/
void setup()
{ 
    for (int i =2; i < 20; i++)
{
pinMode(i, OUTPUT);
digitalWrite(i, LOW);
}
 
pinMode(P1_3,INPUT_PULLUP);       // this is the PUSH BUTTON
pinMode(P1_0,OUTPUT);                     //Enable output on P1_0 (onboard red LED) 
attachInterrupt(P1_3,Interrupt, FALLING); 
}

  void loop()
{
// Flash the LED - use sleep and sleepSeconds to save power by going
// into LPM3
  for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++)           
  {
    digitalWrite(RED_LED, HIGH);
    sleep(200);                        // use sleep for millis
    digitalWrite(RED_LED, LOW);
    sleepSeconds(1);                   // use sleepSeconds for seconds
  }
  // Suspend and go into LPM4
  suspend();
}
void Interrupt(void) 
{
  wakeup();                            // wake up if button is pushed
}

[Fmilburn 446]

 

Hi Fmilburn,

Thank you for your remark.  I tested your suggested code on new MSP-EXP430G using Fluke 187 multimeter connected in series to the Vcc pins of J3 after the jumper was removed and I measured 0.27 ?A which is good.  Is there anything else I can do, in your opinion,  to lower current consumption to  0.1 ?A ?

 

Here is your the code I used:

Try the following one at a time and see what, if any, difference it makes.  I would be interested in the results.

 

1) As suggested above, set port 3 to output direction and make pins low in setup()

  P3DIR = 0xFF;                     // set port 3 pin directions to output
  P3OUT = 0x00;                     // set port 3 pins low

2) Set the push button to be INPUT_PULLDOWN and the interrupt to be RISING - I doubt this will  make any real difference

3) As suggested by roadrunner84, disconnect J4 completely and provide ~1.8V at J6

[roadrunner84 466]

If I remember correctly, the OP was in LPM4 - there shouldn't be any clocks...

True, but lowing the voltage to 1.8V forces you to lower the clockspeed in those slivers of time you're not in LPM4, because you can't run at high speeds on that low a voltage.

[NurseBob 111]

True, but lowing the voltage to 1.8V forces you to lower the clockspeed in those slivers of time you're not in LPM4, because you can't run at high speeds on that low a voltage.

Good point.