Filter
Top Products
SYSTEM CONTROL MODULE
Power Management
188 Hardware Reference NS9215
Register bit
assignment
Bits Access Mnemonic Reset Description
D31 R/W Slp en 0x0 Deprecated Chip sleep enable
This control bit is provided for backwards
compatibility with software written for the NS9750
and NS9360 processors, and should not be used by
new software.
System software writes a 1 to this bit to stop the
clock to the CPU. Note that software is responsible
for stopping the clocks to all other modules except
the wakeup module(s) before setting this bit. When
this bit is set, the clock to the CPU is stopped and the
CPU is held in reset.
New designs should not use this bit.
They should stop the clock by executing the
following coprocessor instruction:
MCR p15, 0<Rd>, c7, c0, 4
This instruction places the ARM9 CPU into wait for
interrupt mode. In wait for interrupt mode, the clock
is stopped to the CPU but reset is not asserted.
The CPU resumes and executes a CPU Wake
Interrupt when activity is detected by one of the
wakeup modules selected by the other bits in this
register. The PC will be restored to the address after
the coprocessor instruction that stopped the CPU’s
clock when the CPU Wake Interrupt ISR completes.
The processor can not wake up on a timer interrupt
because the system timers are stopped when the
processor enters wake for interrupt mode.
D30 R/W HW clk scale 0x0 Hardware clock scale control
0 Disable hardware clock scale control
1 Enable hardware clock scale control
Used by hardware to increase the clock rate when
activity is found on one of the modules enabled as a
wakeup module.
Hardware automatically increases the system clock
frequencies to the value set by the max clock scale
control bit in the Clock Control register.
D29:22 N/A Reserved N/A N/A
D21 R/W MemSRFEn 0x0 SDRAM self refresh control
0 Memory self refresh control disabled
1 Memory self refresh control enabled
When enabled, the memory controller is
automatically placed in self refresh mode when the
CPU is in sleep mode and taken out of self refresh
upon wakeup.