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Intermittent High current consumption in sleep

I have a custom board based on NRF52811. Salient features:-

Both HF and LF crystals are present on board.

Power supply is 3.3V.

MCU DC-DC is enabled.

I am using Apache Mynewt OS for the software and to test the low power capability in sleep, there is a basic app setup which doesnt do anything so the OS puts the CPU in sleep.

The nominal current consumption is ~3-4uA which is acceptable, however after a period of ~2mins the current jumps to ~300uA and stays that way for another 2mins, after which it returns back to ~3-4uA. And this cycle keeps repeating. I checked the software and there are no tasks which wake up at 2mins to cause this consumption.

After going through the errata and forum I saw that there are quite few issues regarding Higher Iq in sleep. I checked all the errata mentioned in the doc and that doesnt seem to be the case.

Please let me know if any more details are required.

Thanks

Navaneeth

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