Datasheet

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8493A–AVR–02/12
XMEGA C4
10. Power Management and Sleep Modes
10.1 Features
• Power management for adjusting power consumption and functions
• Five sleep modes
–Idle
–Power down
– Power save
–Standby
– Extended standby
• Power reduction register to disable clock and turn off unused peripherals in active and idle
modes
10.2 Overview
Various sleep modes and clock gating are provided in order to tailor power consumption to appli-
cation requirements. This enables the Atmel AVR XMEGA microcontroller to stop unused
modules to save power.
All sleep modes are available and can be entered from active mode. In active mode, the CPU is
executing application code. When the device enters sleep mode, program execution is stopped
and interrupts or a reset is used to wake the device again. The application code decides which
sleep mode to enter and when. Interrupts from enabled peripherals and all enabled reset
sources can restore the microcontroller from sleep to active mode.
In addition, power reduction registers provide a method to stop the clock to individual peripherals
from software. When this is done, the current state of the peripheral is frozen, and there is no
power consumption from that peripheral. This reduces the power consumption in active mode
and idle sleep modes and enables much more fine-tuned power management than sleep modes
alone.
10.3 Sleep Modes
Sleep modes are used to shut down modules and clock domains in the microcontroller in order
to save power. XMEGA microcontrollers have five different sleep modes tuned to match the typ-
ical functional stages during application execution. A dedicated sleep instruction (SLEEP) is
available to enter sleep mode. Interrupts are used to wake the device from sleep, and the avail-
able interrupt wake-up sources are dependent on the configured sleep mode. When an enabled
interrupt occurs, the device will wake up and execute the interrupt service routine before con-
tinuing normal program execution from the first instruction after the SLEEP instruction. If other,
higher priority interrupts are pending when the wake-up occurs, their interrupt service routines
will be executed according to their priority before the interrupt service routine for the wake-up
interrupt is executed. After wake-up, the CPU is halted for four cycles before execution starts.
The content of the register file, SRAM and registers are kept during sleep. If a reset occurs dur-
ing sleep, the device will reset, start up, and execute from the reset vector.
10.3.1 Idle Mode
In idle mode the CPU and nonvolatile memory are stopped (note that any ongoing programming
will be completed), but all peripherals, including the interrupt controller, and event system are
kept running. Any enabled interrupt will wake the device.