Jetson Orin Nano RTC Power consumption

Hello,
we plan to develop a device using the Jetson Orin Nano and stumbled upon the fact, that the Jetson Orin Nano has a relatively high power consumption on battery backup operation of 12 to 50µA (Source: Jetson-Orin-Nano-Series-Modules-Data-Sheet_DS-11105-001_v1.2.pdf (3.5 PMIC_BBAT, Page 31).

In the Worst-Case (50µA) an average CR2450 Battery (500mAh) would last just a little bit more than a year according to our calculations.

It seems like the power consumption has been adjusted for the Jetson Orin Nano (Regarding to the previous topic i found in this forum: https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/pmic-bbat-current-in-orin-nx/278262/3 ).

Usual Real Time Clocks i found consume about 1µA. So i wanted to ask, what else is powered by this pin on Jetson Orin Nano Module and if it is necessary to include a option to change in this short time? An other option we would consider to use a external RTC with lower consumption and not use the Battery on PMIC_BBAT at all if it wont affect any other functions of the Jetson Orin Nano module (which shouldn’t be the case as the Developer-Kit doesn’t use a Battery at all).

Thank you in Advance!

Eugen.

Hi, the power consumption of RTC can not be adjusted, it is 50uA in worst case and can not be controlled. An external RTC is the option to your use case.

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