
LEON-G100/G200 - System Integration Manual
GSM.G1-HW-09002-C Preliminary System description
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Figure 6: Description of the VCC current consumption profile versus time during a GSM call
When a GPRS connection is established, the battery is discharged at a rate determined by the current
consumption profile typical of the GPRS transmitting and receiving bursts. In contrast to a GSM call, during a
GPRS connection more than one slot can be used to transmit and/or more than one slot can be used to receive.
The transmitted power depends on network conditions and sets the peak of current consumption, but following
the GPRS specifications the maximum transmitted power can be reduced if more than one slot is used to
transmit, so the maximum peak of current consumption is not as high as can be the case in a GSM call.
1.5.2.1.2 Idle-mode
By default the module automatically enters idle-mode (power-saving mode) whenever possible, unless idle mode
is disabled using the appropriate AT command (refer to u-blox AT Commands Manual [2]).
When the data module is registered or attached to a network and a voice or data call is not enabled, the module
must periodically monitor the paging channel of the current base station (paging block reception), in accordance
to GSM system requirements. When the module monitors the paging channel, it wakes up to active mode, to
enable the paging block reception. In between, the module switches to idle-mode (power-saving mode). This is
known as GSM discontinuous reception (DRX).
The module processor core is activated during the paging block reception, and automatically switches its
reference clock frequency from the 32 kHz to the 26 MHz used in active-mode.
The time period between two paging block receptions is defined by the network. The time interval between two
paging block receptions can be from 470.76 ms (width of 2 GSM multiframes = 2 x 51 GSM frames = 2 x 51 x
4.615 ms) up to 2118.42 ms (width of 9 GSM multiframes = 9 x 51 frames = 9 x 51 x 4.615 ms): this is the
paging period parameter broadcast and fixed by the base station.
An example of current consumption profile of the data module is shown in Figure 7: the module is registered
with the network, automatically goes into idle mode and periodically wakes up to active mode to monitor the
paging channel for paging block reception
Time
RX
slot
unused
slot
unused
slot
TX
slot
unused
slot
unused
slot
MON
slot
unused
slot
RX
slot
unused
slot
unused
slot
TX
slot
unused
slot
unused
slot
MON
slot
unused
slot
GSM frame
4.615 ms
(1 frame = 8 slots)
Current
200 mA
~40 mA
~170 mA
2500 mA
Depends on
TX power
~170 mA
GSM frame
4.615 ms
(1 frame = 8 slots)
Time
RX
slot
unused
slot
unused
slot
TX
slot
unused
slot
unused
slot
MON
slot
unused
slot
RX
slot
unused
slot
unused
slot
TX
slot
unused
slot
unused
slot
MON
slot
unused
slot
GSM frame
4.615 ms
(1 frame = 8 slots)
Current
200 mA
~40 mA
~170 mA
2500 mA
Depends on
TX power
~170 mA
GSM frame
4.615 ms
(1 frame = 8 slots)
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