Here are some thoughts about the power-down mode. Battery capacity is around 1.0 A-hr. Discharge time vs current draw: 1uA 1e6 hours 100 years 10uA 1e5 hours 10 years 100uA 1e4 hours 1 year So we should probably keep the quiescent current below 100uA so the battery lasts a year when the device is "off". Switching Converter (TPS61097) The quiescent current is listed as typically 2uA though the data sheet is a bit confusing. Highest number is 5uA which is fine. BLE module It has a sleep mode, but the power consumption seems to be at least 60uA which is probably too much. We should put the P-MOSFET power control back on the BLE module. Gyro (L3GD20H) This has a power-down mode which draws 1uA. This seems ok, but we should read the data sheet carefully to be sure we can enable this mode ATMega328 There are six sleep modes. The lowest-power is "Power-down" mode. In this mode the current is much less than 1uA It can be woken from power-down mode by a pin change interrupt. The firmware must take care to disable all the ouutputs with pull-up resistors before going into power down mode.
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