2.4.1 High Current Consumption In Sleep Mode

The current consumption will increase during sleep when executing the SLEEP instruction directly after an SEI instruction if a pending interrupt cannot wake the device from the selected sleep mode.

Work Around

Before entering sleep, the interrupts not used to wake the device from sleep mode may be disabled.

Affected Silicon Revisions

ATmega640
Rev. A Rev. B
X X
ATmega1280/1281
Rev. A Rev. B
X X
ATmega2560/2561
Rev. A Rev. C Rev. E Rev. F
- X - -