This slide highlights the MC9S08QE8 low-power features. The QE devices have a couple of ultra-low-power stop modes. The Stop 2 and Stop 3 modes each give the ability to put the device into a low-power stop state and then come out and execute at a high speed, reducing overall average power consumption. Some typical bench values with peripherals disabled are 350 nanoamps in Stop 3 and 250 nanoamps in Stop 2. Any of the stop modes, Stop 3 in particular, allow limited use of peripherals so that sampling from external components can continue in the reduced power state, extending battery life. The fast wakeup from Stop 3 mode, typically six microseconds, allows applications to wake up quickly and get to processing with a minimal delay. Additionally, the QE family has recently introduced the new low-power run and low-power wait modes which allows applications to continue processing and running tasks at ultra-low power. For example, the bench value using a 32KHz crystal running at a BUS speed of 16KHz results in using only five microamps in the low-power run mode (running out of RAM). There is also the option to gate clocks to different peripherals, preventing the BUS clock from reaching certain peripherals, reducing the overall average current draw. Finally there is the ultra-low-power oscillator, which will handle crystal resonators, and ranges in frequencies from 31.25KHz to 38.4KHz or 1MHz to 16MHz. This oscillator allows the maintenance of a more accurate time base than the ICS (internal clock source) in low-power mode.