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Power controller (PWR)
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Entering low-power mode
Low-power modes are entered by the MCU by executing the WFI (Wait For Interrupt), or
WFE (Wait for Event) instructions, or when the SLEEPONEXIT bit in the Cortex
®
-M4 with
FPU System Control register is set on Return from ISR.
Entering Low-power mode through WFI or WFE will be executed only if no interrupt is
pending or no event is pending.
Exiting low-power mode
The MCU exits from Sleep and Stop modes low-power mode depending on the way the low-
power mode was entered:
•
If the WFI instruction or Return from ISR was used to enter the low-power mode, any
peripheral interrupt acknowledged by the NVIC can wake up the device.
•
If the WFE instruction is used to enter the low-power mode, the MCU exits the low-
power mode as soon as an event occurs. The wakeup event can be generated either
by:
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NVIC IRQ interrupt:
When SEVONPEND = 0 in the Cortex
®
-M4 with FPU System Control register: by
enabling an interrupt in the peripheral control register and in the NVIC. When the
MCU resumes from WFE, the peripheral interrupt pending bit and the NVIC
peripheral IRQ channel pending bit (in the NVIC interrupt clear pending register)
have to be cleared. Only NVIC interrupts with sufficient priority will wakeup and
interrupt the MCU.
When SEVONPEND = 1 in the Cortex
®
-M4 with FPU System Control register: by
enabling an interrupt in the peripheral control register and optionally in the NVIC.
When the MCU resumes from WFE, the peripheral interrupt pending bit and when
enabled the NVIC peripheral IRQ channel pending bit (in the NVIC interrupt clear
pending register) have to be cleared. All NVIC interrupts will wakeup the MCU,
even the disabled ones.Only enabled NVIC interrupts with sufficient priority will
wakeup and interrupt the MCU.
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Event
This is done by configuring a EXTI line in event mode. When the CPU resumes
from WFE, it is not necessary to clear the EXTI peripheral interrupt pending bit or
the NVIC IRQ channel pending bit as the pending bits corresponding to the event
line is not set. It may be necessary to clear the interrupt flag in the peripheral.
The MCU exits from Standby low-power mode through an external reset (NRST pin), an
IWDG reset, a rising edge on one of the enabled WKUPx pins or a RTC event occurs (see
).
After waking up from Standby mode, program execution restarts in the same way as after a
Reset (boot pin sampling, option bytes loading, reset vector is fetched, etc.).