VIPER
Power and power management
Power management
The VIPER board supports various power management functions. Under normal
conditions the VIPER consumes typically 405mA ±5mA (2025mW ±25mW) once it has
finished booting. During the boot process the VIPER consumes up to 470mA, 2350mW.
This is with:
The processor running at 400MHz in idle mode.
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Its external memory running at 100MHz.
All on board peripherals powered.
No external peripherals powered.
To estimate the power consumption of the VIPER use the following formula:
(VIPER current (norm) - processor current saving
- on board peripheral current external peripheral current) x 5V
Read the following subsections to estimate the power for the processor, on board and
external peripheral devices.
Processor power estimations
Take into account the processor operating frequency, core voltage and memory
frequency for the application. The figures shown in the table below are when the
processor memory frequency is set to 100MHz. Currently embedded Linux and
VxWorks supports changing the operating frequency and Windows CE .NET will
provide support shortly. Please refer to the relevant operating system technical manual
to select an alternative operating frequency.
Current Saving (mA) from 5V when Processor Core is
Processor Mode Vcore (V)
400MHz 300MHz 200MHz 100MHz Asleep
Active 1.29 -92
±15
- - - -
Active 1.1
-
-46
±15
- - -
Active
1.06
-
-
-31 ±15
-16 ±21
-
Idle
1.29 0
(default)
- - - -
Idle
1.1
- 14 - - -
Idle 1.06 -
-
15
20
-
Sleep 1.06
- - - - 62
Current figures when the microprocessor is active were taken with the following
load conditions. Calculating checksums of two files (first file: 1.1MB and second
file: 0.5MB), and copying two 256kB files.
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