Rainbow Electronics ATtiny26L - Manual (Page 41)

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ATtiny26(L)
1477B–AVR–04/02
Power Management
and Sleep Modes
Sleep modes enable the application to shut down unused modules in the MCU, thereby
saving power. The AVR provides various sleep modes allowing the user to tailor the
power consumption to the application’s requirements.
To enter any of the four sleep modes, the SE bit in MCUCR must be written to logic one
and a SLEEP instruction must be executed. The SM1, and SM0 bits in the MCUCR
Register select which sleep mode (Idle, ADC Noise Reduction, Power Down, or Stand-
by) will be activated by the SLEEP instruction. See Table 18 for a summary. If an
enabled interrupt occurs while the MCU is in a sleep mode, the MCU wakes up. The
MCU is then halted for four cycles in addition to the start-up time, it executes the inter-
rupt routine, and resumes execution from the instruction following SLEEP. The contents
of the Register File and SRAM are unaltered when the device wakes up from sleep. If a
Reset occurs during sleep mode, the MCU wakes up and executes from the Reset
Vector.
Table 20 on page 42 presents the different clock systems in the ATtiny26, and their dis-
tribution. The figure is helpful in selecting an appropriate sleep mode.
Idle Mode When the SM1..0 bits are written to “00”, the SLEEP instruction makes the MCU enter
Id l e m o de , s t op p in g t h e C PU bu t a l l ow in g A n a l og Co mp a rat o r, A DC , USI ,
Timer/Counters, Watchdog, and the interrupt system to continue operating. This sleep
mode basically halts clk
CPU
and clk
FLASH
, while allowing the other clocks to run.
Idle mode enables the MCU to wake up from external triggered interrupts as well as
internal ones like the Timer Overflow and USI Start and Overflow interrupts. If wake-up
from the Analog Comparator interrupt is not required, the Analog Comparator can be
powered down by setting the ACD bit in the Analog Comparator Control and Status
Register – ACSR. This will reduce power consumption in Idle mode. If the ADC is
enabled, a conversion starts automatically when this mode is entered.
ADC Noise Reduction Mode When the SM1..0 bits are written to “01”, the SLEEP instruction makes the MCU enter
ADC Noise Reduction mode, stopping the CPU but allowing the ADC, the External Inter-
rupts, the USI start condition detection, and the Watchdog to continue operating (if
enabled). This sleep mode basically halts clk
I/O
, clk
CPU
, and clk
FLASH
, while allowing the
other clocks to run.
This improves the noise environment for the ADC, enabling higher resolution measure-
ments. If the ADC is enabled, a conversion starts automatically when this mode is
entered. Apart form the ADC Conversion Complete interrupt, only an External Reset, a
Watchdog Reset, a Brown-out Reset, USI start condition interrupt, an EEPROM ready
interrupt, an External Level Interrupt on INT0, or a pin change interrupt can wake up the
MCU from ADC Noise Reduction mode.
Power-down Mode When the SM1..0 bits are written to “10”, the SLEEP instruction makes the MCU enter
Power-down mode. In this mode, the External Oscillator is stopped, while the External
Interrupts, the USI start condition detection, and the Watchdog continue operating (if
enabled). Only an External Reset, a Watchdog Reset, a Brown-out Reset, USI start con-
dition interrupt, an External Level Interrupt on INT0, or a pin change interrupt can wake
up the MCU. This sleep mode basically halts all generated clocks, allowing operation of
asynchronous modules only.
When waking up from Power-down mode, there is a delay from the wake-up condition
occurs until the wake-up becomes effective. This allows the clock to restart and become
stable after having been stopped. The wake-up period is defined by the same CKSEL
Fuses that define the reset time-out period, as described in “Clock Sources” on page 27.