Review the basics of electrical quantities.

Explore the hardware architecture of a typical Bluetooth LE product.

Understand how the choice, arrangement, and configuration of components, such as PMICs, sensors, LEDs, and user interfaces, affect power consumption.

Learn how architectural design choices for different Bluetooth LE roles impact power consumption.

Get familiar with the Online Power Profiler (OPP), a Nordic Semiconductor web tool for power consumption estimation.

Learn how to calculate an estimated power budget for your Bluetooth LE product.

Compare Nordic’s PMIC lineup (rechargeable vs. primary cell) and learn how to select the appropriate PMIC for a given product design and battery type

Identify the system management features integrated into Nordic PMICs and explore how they can reduce overall power consumption beyond what the SoC alone can achieve

Learn how to use Nordic’s PMIC tools, and drivers to integrate the PMIC with the host SoC and verify correct operation

Learn through hands-on exercise how to wire an nPM2100 EK to an nRF54L development kit and configure the boost converter to deliver a stable 1.8 V (or higher) supply from a single AAA/AA cell

Understand how to accurately measure and analyze power consumption, including how to measure periodic signals, and evaluate the strengths, limitations, and common pitfalls of different measurement tools (oscilloscope, ammeter, SMU/PPK) for both detailed time-domain analysis and low-current measurement

Learn to avoid common pitfalls and follow best practices for custom firmware/hardware measurement setups: identify and eliminate leakage sources (GPIO states, pullups, debugger connections, back-powering paths, device variation, unused peripherals) that can cause unpredictable current consumption and distort results.

Explore how to verify your measurement setup under controlled conditions before conducting measurements on your own custom hardware/firmware.

Learn through hands-on exercise how to measure power consumption on the nRF54L Series DKs using: Oscilloscope, PPK2, DC Power Analyzer, and ammeter

Understand how Bluetooth LE connection parameters, interval, peripheral latency, TX power, and PHY, affect power consumption.

Examine how advertising data, type, and parameters, such as interval, transmit power, mode (connectable vs. non-connectable, scannable vs. non-scannable), and channel map, impact power consumption.

Learn how packet size optimization and the choice of GATT operation (requests vs. commands, notification vs. indications) influence power optimization.

Understand the relationship between throughput, latency, and low power, and learn key Bluetooth LE connection considerations for smartphones.

Practice through hands-on exercises how to optimize power consumption in a Bluetooth LE connection by adjusting various connection aspects.

Practice through hands-on exercises how to optimize power consumption in a Bluetooth LE broadcaster by adjusting various advertising aspects.

Learn how the low-frequency clock (LFCLK) source affects power consumption, accuracy, and cost, and how to select the best option for your product requirements.

Learn about the different sleep modes in the nRF54L Series.

• System ON IDLE with full memory retention, 192 KB RAM, 96 KB RAM, and with different sub-modes

• System OFF (deep sleep) with wake-up sources such as GPIO, LPCOMP, NFCT, or GRTC.

• Get familiar with common hardware/software issues that impact sleep current.

Learn how to identify the enabled and actually used peripherals in an nRF Connect SDK application and verify whether they have interrupt setups.

Measure the power consumption impact of various peripherals: UART, watchdog, timers from different power domains, and PWM outputs, including standard and low-power GRTC on average current and System ON idle current.

Practice through hands-on exercises how to put the nRF54L Series SoCs into different power-saving modes, and evaluate the power consumption in sleep modes using different device configurations.

Understand the trade-offs between the two types of GPIO interrupts (PORT sense and GPIOTE IN events) and learn the intended use cases for each.

Learn how to use the Event System to enable peripherals to interact autonomously without waking the CPU.

Learn how to use EasyDMA to move data between peripherals and memory without CPU intervention.

Practice through a hands-on exercise how to apply these techniques with the Event System and EasyDMA.

Practice through a hands-on exercise how interrupt type affects System ON-idle current using both the PORT sense mechanism and the GPIOTE IN mechanism.