Datasheet

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nRF8001 Product Specification
Revision 1.2
Each advertising event consists of the following states and operations (the numbers below correspond to
the numbers displayed in Figure 19. on page 41
):
1. Radio pre-processing period
2. Active radio receive time
3. Radio Inter Frame Space (T_
IFS
)
4. Active transmit time
5. Link layer post processing period
6. Data post processing period, enabled only if data has been received
Figure 20.
shows the average current consumption (with and without the DC/DC converter enabled) as a
function of the length of the advertisement interval.
Figure 20. Graph showing average current consumption as a function of advertisement interval length