Online Power Profiler for BLE: questions and a bug

[9il]

Hello,

Please help me to figure out how to use https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/power/w/opp/2/online-power-profiler-for-bluetooth-le for time interval estimation. I have a few questions.

1. Why does connection event length include 'standby'? What is it?
2. If HF clock is already enabled, will it reduce the connection length by the time of the crystal ramp-up?
3. Why does connection event length include postprocessing? Can post-processing overlap with the next connection event RX or TX operation?

A small related bug report:

nRF5340 has the wrong simulation when RX is set to some value instead of 0. Try to set it to 1, and you will see a massive increase in power consumption. The picture will show the correct char of power consumption. However, the report numbers will be wrong. If you integrate the power chart on the picture, you will see how different it is from the report number of the power consumption.

[Simonr]

Ah, I see. Thank you for explaining!

This is because the CPU running to post-process the received data is not reflected in the plot, which is what's causing the confusion here. Report numbers will be correct here, not the graph itself. It is noted by the developers.

We are currently in a holiday period in Norway, so delayed replies must be expected until Monday May 22nd. Thank you for your patience!

Best regards,

Simon