RE: power manager policy nrf52833 dts

Håkon Alseth — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 11:58:15 GMT

Hi,

[quote user=""]The zephyr,pm-device-runtime-auto flag is assigned to the i2c0/1 and adc nodes but not to the spi0/1 nodes.[/quote]

SPI is a synchronous protocol, and keeping this enabled in sleep does not provide a penalty in terms of sleep current (unless you're using SPIM3, which is high speed capable).

I2C will draw more current if kept enabled while in sleep, unfortunately. This is the reason why this supports the flag.

[quote user=""]Similar question for the USB device, although it seems the driver do not even support power management, but I could be wrong...[/quote]

USB has specific protocol mandated states, powered / configured / etc, and will be able to give an event based on the NRF_POWER->EVENTS_USBPOWERED event. This is shown in the cdc_acm sample:

https://github.com/nrfconnect/sdk-zephyr/blob/main/samples/subsys/usb/cdc_acm/src/main.c#L50-L60

Kind regards,

Håkon