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BL652
Datasheet
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TX power 4 dBm
Interval 7.5 ms
29 byte payload
Advertising interval 20 ms
Figure 5: Typical peak current consumption profile (with DCDC ON) during data connection event in slave mode @ TX PWR +4dBm
UART is OFF
Note: In the above pictures, UART is OFF. Y-axis current (1.3 mA per square).
To make things easier the average current during the whole BLE event is shown in the plot above, and then the
BLE event total charge consumption is found by multiplying the average current over the BLE event with the
length of the event. This charge can then be used to extrapolate the average current for different advertising
intervals, by dividing by the interval. Then the StandbyDoze (IDLE) current must be added to give the total
average current. In this example we can calculate the average current to be:
The total charge of the BLE event:
BLE_charge = BLE_avg * BLE_length
The average current consumed by the BLE event for a specific interval:
BLE_avg = BLE_charge / (BLE_interval + perturbation)
The perturbation is given as a random number between 0 and 10 milliseconds added to the interval to prevent
advertisers to periodically transmit at the exact same time. This averages to 5 milliseconds.
TX: 8.55 mA
RX: 6 mA
Average current for BLE connection