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Visitor II
December 21, 2023
Question

STM32412CG UFQFPN48 MCO2 unexpected power consumption

  • December 21, 2023
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The STM32F412 chips have 2 MCO pins:

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The MCO2 pin can have 4 different source clocks:

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I've noticed that when I change the source from a default one (SYSCLK) to PLLI2S (PLLI2S not enabled) or HSE (not connected), the power consumption is reduced ~0,5mW. 

I'm using STM32F412CG chip in UFQFPN48 package. This chip version doesn't even have the MCO2 pin (PC9).

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I don't see such behavior for the MCO1 pin.

Have anybody encountered similar behavior? Doesn't it feel like a silicon bug?  

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    Super User
    December 21, 2023

    Read out and post content of GPIOC registers.

    JW

    dawidnAuthor
    Visitor II
    December 21, 2023

    GPIOC MODER : 0xfc000000
    GPIOC OTYPER : 0x00000000
    GPIOC OSPEEDR: 0x00000000
    GPIOC PUPDR: 0x00000000
    GPIOC AFRL: 0x00000000
    GPIOC AFRH: 0x00000000

     

    It's all default values for PC9, since my package doesn't even have the PC9 pin.

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    Super User
    December 21, 2023

    That's hummm then...

    JW