Measuring current consumption of custom board

[pd@learner]

I have custom board with nrf 52832. I am using SDK 15.2.0. and soft devices s132 V6.1.0 to transmit advertising packets with advertising interval 1s. I  have  written simple application that reads battery status and  transmitted it in manufacturing data of advertising packets. I want to measure  current of my application on oscilloscope and calculate battery life. please suggest any method for the same.

Thanks in Advance

[Jared]

Hi,

You can use our Power Profiler Kit to measure the current consumption of your custom board. Read more about it here, or use the method of current shunt resistor. 

regards

Jared 

[pd@learner]

Thanks For quick reply. For measuring current consumption of custom board with Power Profiler Kit , is it possible to use with by default calibration resistor settings or  I have to modify it ? If it has to be modified what is the procedure to modify it?

[Jared]

No, you don't have to do any modifications to use it for measuring on a external board. See the documentation for a guide on how to measure the current on a custom board.