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Alpha 21264/EV67 Hardware Reference Manual
Initialization and Configuration 7–9
Energy Star Certification and Sleep Mode Flow
Figure 7–2 Fault Reset Sequence of Operation
7.3 Energy Star Certification and Sleep Mode Flow
The 21264/EV67 is Energy Star compliant. Energy Star is a program administered by
the Environmental Protection Agency to reduce energy consumption. For compliance,
a computer must automatically enter a low power sleep mode using 30 watts or less
after a specified period of inactivity. When the system is awakened, the user shall be
returned automatically to the same situation that existed prior to entering sleep mode.
During normal operation, the 21264/EV67 encounters inactive periods and enters a
mode that saves the entire active processor state to memory.
The PALcode is responsible for saving all necessary state to DRAM and flushing the
caches.
The sleep mode sequence of operations is triggered by the PALcode twice performing a
HW_MTPR to the Ibox SLEEP IPR. The first write prevents the assertion of
ClkFwdRst_H from fault-resetting the chip.
The PALcode then informs the system, in an implementation-dependent way, that it
may assert ClkFwdRst_H.
On the second HW_MTPR to the SLEEP IPR, the PLL begins to ramp down and the
21264/EV67 can then respond to the ClkFwdRst_H that was asserted by the system,
causing the outgoing clocks from the 21264/EV67 to stop.
The PLL ramp-down sequence takes exactly the same amount of time as the ramp up
sequence described in Section 7.1.3. The same internal duration counter is used and the
reset state machine transitions through the DOWN1, DOWN2, and DOWN3 states
which have similar PLL divisor ratios and clock speeds to the RAMP2, RAMP1, and
WAIT_NOMINAL states.
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