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<concept id="GUID-29B84A67-9DB7-5F4C-A4D1-A3BDC69015A8" xml:lang="en"><title>Additional

System Wide Power States</title><shortdesc>A base port can add new power states to improve power management

for phone hardware. </shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>

<p>The Kernel defines three system wide power states. A base port can add

new power states to improve power management for phone hardware. </p>

<p>The generic system wide power states that are defined are <i>Active</i>, <i>Standby</i> and <i>Off</i>.

Any additional sub-states of the <i>Active</i> power state must be wholly

managed by the base port. These states may not need to be declared explicitly

and may result from peripherals, or groups of peripherals, having moved to

their low power state (see also <xref href="GUID-1D3E61BD-C09D-51FD-A10B-22392FDAEFEC.dita#GUID-1D3E61BD-C09D-51FD-A10B-22392FDAEFEC/GUID-DCB8EA90-9B5F-5BA1-8D22-124980AC6B34">moving

to their low power state</xref>). The device will then “trickle“ into one

of these sub-states instead of transitioning into them as a result of a user

action or system policy decision. </p>

<p>Usually, the transition of the system into one of the additional low power

states happens when the CPU enters the idle mode. The transition may be automatic

and wholly managed by the ASSP hardware or may result from an action taken

by the software routine that prepares the CPU to go to idle mode. </p>

<section id="GUID-22A20CBB-6BF2-495F-B32C-63834DD4624C"><title>Sleeping in idle mode</title> <p>An example of this is when

the base port uses the idle mode to put the CPU and the device into hardware

“Sleep” mode similar to that which can be achieved with a transition to <i>Standby</i> mode

as described in the implementation issues for <xref href="GUID-34D1D0BF-20DE-5677-A067-8FF9DD72E703.dita#GUID-34D1D0BF-20DE-5677-A067-8FF9DD72E703/GUID-1F77C71C-D226-58BB-ABAE-43F958CC0C61">implementing

DPowerController::PowerDown()</xref>  </p> <p>When called, the power controller’s <xref href="GUID-34D1D0BF-20DE-5677-A067-8FF9DD72E703.dita#GUID-34D1D0BF-20DE-5677-A067-8FF9DD72E703/GUID-E2A072D0-A67F-5E6D-81ED-CFD77B6ED4F1">DPowerController::CpuIdle() </xref> implementation

could take the necessary steps to prepare the CPU and the platform to go to

“Sleep”. </p> <p>There is a balance between the power savings obtained from

moving the CPU and platform into “Sleep” mode in Idle and the performance

hit resulting from spending time restoring the status after coming out of

“Sleep” mode. Usually the <codeph>CpuIdle()</codeph> routine investigates

the timer queue (using <xref href="GUID-C54D99AA-FF6E-3023-8260-8F5A88FBFBE0.dita#GUID-C54D99AA-FF6E-3023-8260-8F5A88FBFBE0/GUID-69103F26-2C21-3ECA-9DB5-C31A41F6C238"><apiname>NTimerQ::IdleTime()</apiname></xref>) for the next

timer expiration and decides to move or not to move the CPU and platform into

“Sleep” mode based on how much time there is before the next timer expiration.

The threshold above which it is considered productive to move into “Sleep”

is dependent on the base port. </p> <p>The decision to move into “Sleep” mode

may also be based on the current level of activity, or collected metrics on

the length of time spent in Idle, or other historical information. This can

be implemented entirely by the base port, or it may require the services of

an external component (such as, for example, Speed Management). </p> <p>The

transition to a hardware “Sleep” mode may also depend on shared peripherals

being in a particular state, for example, no pending requests from other peripherals.

This means that the power controller may need to check with the peripheral

driver before initiating the change. The power controller could use the ASSP/Variant

method to access the resource manager and check the usage of a shared peripheral

using its <codeph>GetCount()</codeph> API. </p> <p>The decision to move into

“Sleep” mode could be dependent on a number of peripherals (shared and not

shared) being in Standby and a number of controllable power resources being

turned off. Therefore the power controller may also need to check with the

resource manager (through the Variant or ASSP) for the state of a specific

set of controllable power resources (using the <codeph>ResourceManager::GetResourceState()</codeph> API). </p> <p>On

going to “Sleep”, an action or set of actions might need to be taken that

would affect the whole platform. An example of this is when DRAM is put into

self-refresh mode on entering the CPU Idle mode after all peripherals that

might access it (including the LCD controller and DSP) are in low power state.

Unused DRAM banks may also be powered down. </p> <p>The following diagram

exemplifies how the evolution of system power would look like on a system

when the most power saving “Sleep” mode can only be reached – from Idle -

when Peripherals A, B and C are already in their low power mode. On going

to the most power saving “Sleep” mode, additional actions can be taken to

lower the system power level: </p> <fig id="GUID-05ED7A51-E1A1-5D2E-AF81-A11A9EC80D7F">

<title>System power use over time</title>

</fig> <ul>

<li id="GUID-FD4E14B6-9471-5A91-B215-E42595645A94"><p>The system is active

when a request for service is made on peripheral A; the peripheral driver

for peripheral A requests its transition to operational state increasing the

system power requirement (a). </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-FB7914E6-13BC-57C7-BA02-A7DAA3A4F968"><p>After a period of activity

related to servicing the request, the system enters the idle thread; in <codeph>CpuIdle()</codeph> the

time for the next timer expiration is investigated and is found to be long

enough to send the system to sleep, powering down peripherals A, B and C to

their low power state and other system resources (b). </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-44F96E35-4DA5-5A34-8D12-6E99D4B96856"><p>The timer expires and

the system wakes up to the same power level as before (c). </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-61124A91-05C6-589D-884B-F4CE5FF9A970"><p>The inactivity timer

implemented in the peripheral driver for peripheral A expires: the peripheral

is transitioned to the low power state (d). </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-1A1BF422-6C3A-5F90-BB8E-E84A31478723"><p>At (e) the system enters

the idle thread again: the timer queue is investigated and then enters sleep

mode, waking up again when an interrupt occurs (f). </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-14C0126F-4333-5A96-93CE-7BBA17A422EF"><p>The inactivity timer

associated with the peripheral drive for peripheral B expires and the peripheral

is transitioned to its low power state (g). </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-3CC1A70B-832A-53EC-BD04-9FA58F58F97D"><p>On the next call to <codeph>CpuIdle()</codeph> the

time for the next timer expiration is not long enough to power off peripherals

and other system resources: only limited power savings can be made (h) until

the system wakes up again (i). </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-FC9FE747-CF6D-501A-B36F-4776F53E5317"><p>Finally, the inactivity

timer for peripheral C expires and the peripheral is transitioned to low power

state (j). On reaching another period of system idle all conditions are met

to send the system to the deepest sleep mode available accompanied by the

switching off other power resources (k). </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-6E283027-9516-50AA-94A7-BEA5C1A1E115"><p>On waking up (l) the

system resources are restored to the same power level as before. </p> </li>

</ul> <p>Any transition to and from these low power states must be transparent

to the rest of the system. A transparent transition is one that can be instantly

reversed, perhaps automatically in hardware, and has no noticeable impact

on system performance. In other words, it should be possible to wake the processor

up and move the entire device to Active Mode as if coming from a “normal”

Idle Mode. </p> <p>To perform a system wide power change which is not transparent,

peripherals that may be affected by the transition would need to be examined,

and interfaces would have to be provided so that the users of these peripherals

could query the peripheral and allow or disallow the system transition into

that state. </p> </section>

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