Why Is my processor leaking power? That sounds like an open-ended question
Question: Why is my processor consuming more power than its data sheet suggests?
Answer:
In my previous article, I talked about the time a device consuming too little power yes, there is such a thing got me into trouble. But that’s a rare occurrence. The more common situation I deal with is customers complaining about parts consuming more power than their data sheet claims.
I can recall an instance when a customer walked into my office with his processor board that he said was consuming too much power and draining the battery and since we proudly claimed that processor to be an ultra low power one, the onus was on us to prove it. As I prepared for the usual grind, cutting off power to different devices on the board one by one until we found the real offender, I remembered a similar case in the not-so-distant past where I had found the culprit to be an LED hanging all by itself between the supply rail a