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Confusion with online power profiler.

Hi, We are developing a product based on the nRF52832 and have been measuring the current consumption on our first prototypes with a Keysight N6705 power analyser. We seem to have a base current, when the CPU is sleeping of around 100uA which was higher than we expected.

By way of confirmation I used the Online Power profiler to get an idea of what to expect and it suggests a standby current of 200uA might be expected

This seems really high to me?

Also if I select the option to turn the DCDC on the standby current increases - also very unexpected?

Can anyone explain why the current profiler indicates such a high standby current? I would have expected it to be in the single digit microamps!!

By way of additional information our FW has UART logging turned off, the App uses the RTC to wake up every 100ms or so to do some work and we are running the LFOSC from a 32KHz Xtal.

May be I am missing something?

Many thanks

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