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Low power mode for KSTR-SAMA5D27

Marcin Wcisło requested to merge kstr-low-power into master

Related projects:

Optionally also https://gitlab.conclusive.pl/devices/linux/-/tree/kstr-wakeup for waking up the board by grounding pin 30 of header A.

Putting the board to sleep:

systemctl suspend

Waking up: any interrupt. SoC ready to work in 300 ms, ping to ETH recovered in 4 seconds after wake up, ping to WiFi in 5 seconds. After 5 seconds whole wake up procedure is complete.

Power consumption measured in tests: 4.8 mA @ 3.5 V = around 17 mW = around 19 days on 2250 mAh battery.

What is being done upon putting the board to sleep:

  • SAMA5D27 put into ULP0 mode.
  • WiFi reset on the WL_REG_ON pin.
  • Bluetooth reset on the BT_REG_ON pin.
  • PHY switched off with the use of "power-down" bit of the BMCR register.
  • PMIC's outputs switched to low-power mode for the domains 3V3, 1V8, 1V2.
  • Reduced voltages 3.3 → 3.1, 1.8 → 1.65, 1.2 → 1.1 V.

On wake up all changes are reversed.

Edited by Marcin Wcisło

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