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Erich Styger Demonstrates How to Drop a Microcontroller's Power Draw by Orders of Magnitude (mcuoneclipse.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

It's nice to enumerate it. I'm sure a lot of people don't think about their microcontroller is having parts that can quiesce. Reducing the frequency of your clock until it meets your needs just barely, that's something probably most people don't do