MSP430F435 Datasheet, PDF (1/16 Pages) ATMEL Corporation – Innovative Techniques for Extremely Low Power Consumption with 8-bit Microcontrollers

Innovative Techniques for Extremely Low Power Consumption
with 8-bit Microcontrollers
Arne Martin Holberg, AVR Project Manager
and
Asmund Saetre, AVR Marketing Manager
Summary
With the increasing use of microcontrollers in all sorts off applications, low power has become an
very important parameter when choosing microcontrollers. Today’s microcontroller designs are
often battery or signal wire powered applications replacing passive or mechanical components.
Common for them all is the requirement of very low power consumption but with enough power to
fill the specification of the product. This white paper will highlight some of the challenges of
modern microcontroller design and how the new picoPower™ techniques used in the Atmel^®
AVR^® microcontroller is addressing them.
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