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. When enabled, the brown-out detector (BOD) actively monitors the power supply voltage during the sleep periods. To further save power, it is possible to disable the BOD in some sleep modes. See Section 9.2 “BOD Disable” on page 35 for more details.
9.1 Sleep Modes
Figure 8-1 on page 24 presents the different clock systems in the Atmel® ATmega328P, and their distribution. The figure is helpful in selecting an appropriate sleep mode. Table 9-1 shows the different sleep modes, their wake up sources BOD disable ability.
Table 9-1. Active Clock Domains and Wake-up Sources in the Different Sleep Modes.
Active Clock Domains Oscillators Wake-up Sources
Timer Oscillator Source Enabled
INT1, INT0 and
SPM/EEPROM TWI Address
BOD Disable Pin Change Main Clock
Software Enabled clkFLASH
Other/O Timer2
Ready clkADC
Match clkCPU
clkASY
WDT ADC clkIO
Sleep Mode Idle X X X X X(2) X X X X X X X ADC noise X X X X(2) X(3) X X(2) X X X Reduction Power-down X(3) X X X (2) (3) Power-save X X X X X X X Standby(1) X X(3) X X X Extended X(2) X X(2) X(3) X X X X Standby Notes: 1. Only recommended with external crystal or resonator selected as clock source. 2. If Timer/Counter2 is running in asynchronous mode. 3. For INT1 and INT0, only level interrupt.
To enter any of the six sleep modes, the SE bit in SMCR must be written to logic one and a SLEEP instruction must be executed. The SM2, SM1, and SM0 bits in the SMCR register select which sleep mode (idle, ADC noise reduction, power- down, power-save, standby, or extended standby) will be activated by the SLEEP instruction. See Table 9-2 on page 38 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, executes the interrupt 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.
