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We in the Nordic Support team have created an online power profiler to estimate the power
consumption during a BLE event with different parameters. The profiler gives you information about
the different components in a BLE event as well as the average current over a specified interval. All Sign in or sign up
data is based on actual measurements conducted on the nRF52, and they are correlated with the BLE
power profiles found in the SoftDevice specification to build a model which estimates the current
components involved.

You can find the nRF52 Online Power Profiler here: devzone.nordicsemi.com/power/. The tool
is also available under the Resources tab at the top.

The BLE event types you can choose between are advertising mode and peripheral connection mode.
You can also choose different values for the following parameters:

Voltage (1.7 to 3.6 volt)

BLE interval (20 to 10240 ms for advertising. 7.5 to 4000 ms for connection)
TX payload (0 to 31 byte for advertising. 0 to 27 byte for connection)
TX power (4, 0, -4, -8, -12, -16, -20, -40 dBm)

Test setup
All measurements have been conducted on an nRF52 development kit using a power analyzer. You can
see how to prepare the development kit for measurements here. Recent blog posts
6 Things to Know about
The equipment and software involved: Bluetooth Beacons
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Chip: nRF52832QFAAB0 for a Bluetooth Mesh
SoftDevice: s132 v2.0.0 example
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Skordal
Application: ble_app_pwr_profiling
Measuring instrument: Agilent N6705B power analyzer with a N6781A module Using millis() like in
Arduino.
Posted Sep 18 '17 by schef
DCDC has been enabled in the application code:
Flashing nRF5x firmware
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sd_power_dcdc_mode_set(1); program via standard
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The application code uses the external 32kHz crystal on the development kit and thus the sleep clock Hoan Hoang
accuracy is 20ppm. In connection, the sleep clock accuracy of the central unit is also specified to be
How to Debug the nRF52
20ppm. Interrupts Useful Tips
Posted Sep 13 '17 by Yaniv Nis
In order to transmit data during connection, the application sends a characteristic value notification Recent questions
with a specific payload to the central every connection event. Radio notifications are used to place
a payload in the TX buffer right before each connection event. The radio notification CPU processing hid keyboard demo irk
question
is not a part of the results from the online power profiler, only the BLE event itself. The reason is Posted 7 hours ago by micele
that application CPU processing is dependent on your application and it is hard to include any general
statements about current consumption in this case. Central receiving more
than 23 bytes as a
notification
Current consumption during application CPU processing can be estimated by measuring the Posted 8 hours ago by DavidC
processing time, for example by using a timer to capture the start time and end time and print it In BLE Central code, is
using UART, or you could use the GPIO peripheral to turn on or off a GPIO pin and then analyze there a way to get peer
the time usage with a logic analyzer. The value can then be multiplied with the CPU and HF clock address from storage?
run currents, found in the nRF52 Product Specification, to get the total consumption. Posted 8 hours ago by nordicdev

In BLE Central code, is it

possible to delete bond
How it works info after connection?
Posted 8 hours ago by nordicdev
To give an example on how the measurement data has been analyzed to create a model for the
profiler, we can have a look at a regular advertising event measured on the power analyzer. The
I want generating a
16MHz clock to output
image below shows a screenshot of the event using these parameters: 3.0 volt, 500 ms advertising for extend ic,how to do
interval, 31 byte TX payload and 0dBm TX power. it?
Posted 8 hours ago by chenlmm

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