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nRF5340-DK Low Power Configuration Issues

Hi,

I am performing some evaluation on the low power capabilities of the nRF5340 using the DK and the PPK v1.

I have written a really basic BLE Peripheral Application based loosely around the peripheral_lbs sample code as I want to test with a button handler eventually.

The problem I have is that after considerable configuration, I can only get the current floor down to ~200uA with an average current of ~215uA with a 1.2 second advertising interval. I've seen a lot of people on here talk about seeing much, much lower currents so wondered is there a configuration that I am missing perhaps?

I have been reading the documents and a few threads on here to understand how to configure the device and I have done the following.

  1. My main application, running on the NS partition, has been configured as follows:

    CONFIG_NCS_SAMPLES_DEFAULTS=y
    
    CONFIG_BT=y
    CONFIG_BT_PERIPHERAL=y
    CONFIG_BT_DEVICE_NAME="MH_TEST"
    
    # Enable the LBS service
    CONFIG_BT_LBS=y
    CONFIG_BT_LBS_POLL_BUTTON=y
    CONFIG_DK_LIBRARY=y
    
    # Drivers and peripherals
    CONFIG_I2C=n
    CONFIG_WATCHDOG=n
    CONFIG_GPIO=n
    CONFIG_PINMUX=n
    CONFIG_SPI=n
    CONFIG_SERIAL=n
    
    # Power management
    CONFIG_DEVICE_POWER_MANAGEMENT=y
    CONFIG_PM=y
    
    # Interrupts
    CONFIG_DYNAMIC_INTERRUPTS=n
    CONFIG_IRQ_OFFLOAD=n
    
    # Memory protection
    CONFIG_THREAD_STACK_INFO=n
    CONFIG_THREAD_CUSTOM_DATA=n
    CONFIG_FPU=n
    
    # Boot
    CONFIG_BOOT_BANNER=n
    CONFIG_BOOT_DELAY=0
    
    # Console
    CONFIG_CONSOLE=n
    CONFIG_UART_CONSOLE=n
    CONFIG_STDOUT_CONSOLE=n
    CONFIG_PRINTK=n
    CONFIG_EARLY_CONSOLE=n
    
    # Build
    CONFIG_SIZE_OPTIMIZATIONS=y


  2. I have added an spm.conf

    CONFIG_IS_SPM=y
    CONFIG_FW_INFO=y
    CONFIG_GPIO=y
    CONFIG_SERIAL=n


    and added that to the CMakeLists.txt

    set(spm_CONF_FILE ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/spm.conf)


  3. I have also configured the hci_rpmsg via the menuconfig to turn off logging

  4. I also tried turning on Power Management via the SPM and HCI_RPMSG's menuconfig's as well but it did not seem to have any effect. 

As for my source code, I have attached it. I simply setup the BLE and handlers and then call:

for (;;) {
    k_cpu_idle();
	}

If we look at the PPK, I see this:

where my baseline current seems to be around 200uA - from what I had read around, I would have expected to be able to get it lower than this, so I imagine I must be configuring something incorrectly. 

If you had any advice, it would be appreciated!

nRF Connect SDK: v1.6.1


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