Intel® PXA27x Processor Family Power Requirements

Note: The figures in Table 4 where taken from a system with no enhanced power management optimization such as Intel Wireless Speedstep (which allows control over the PXA27x processors low power modes and dynamically selectable frequency and voltage change capability).

Table 4. Intel® PXA27x Processor VCC_CORE Supply Current

Frequency

 

Dhrystones 2.1

Power

 

MPEG4 Decode

Power

 

Power Stress

Power

Point @

 

 

 

Test

 

Current (mA)

(mW)

 

current (mA)

(mW)

 

(mW)

voltage V

 

 

 

Current (mA)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

624 MHz

 

658

1019

 

622

964

 

1006

1559

1.55 V

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

520 Mhz

 

503

729

 

475

689

 

767

1112

1.45V

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

416 MHz

 

395

533

 

420

567

 

594

802

1.35V

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

312 MHz

 

297

371

 

333

416

 

436

545

1.25V

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

208 MHz

 

208

239

 

263

303

 

295

339

1.15V

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOTE: Core Frequency shown above/Internal bus = 208MHz/Memclk = 208MHz/SDCLK = 104MHz

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note: Use these specifications as a guideline for power supply capacity. These typical guidelines will vary across different platforms and software applications.

2.1.3.2Supply Current For Each Power Domain

This section provides guidelines for the power consumption that could be seen for each power supply domain when running a heavily loaded system. Focused workloads were used to exercise each power supply domain separately. It is important to note that the workloads were designed to push the power consumption on each domain to a higher than normal level given a typical environment in order to show what the overall power envelope for these domains could look like. In a real system, each domain will see varying amounts of power consumption based on the type of workload run. For instance, an MPEG-4 decoder is going to utilize the memory controller much more than performing simple email transactions would.

Guidance on the power consumption for each domain in order to show Table 5 lists power-supply current for each PXA27x processor power domain except for VCC_CORE (Table 4 shows data for VCC_CORE). The environment test conditions are at room temperature and the voltage levels are specified below.

Note that the I/O domain regulator(s) (VCC_IO, VCC_LCD, VCC_MEM, VCC_BB,

VCC_USIM, VCC_USB) have additional loading from external devices attached to the PXA27x processor. For example, when flash memory or SDRAM is connected to the system bus. These loads must be added to those of PXA27x processor I/Os (if they are powered by the same regulator) when specifying the total load to be provided by a given regulator.

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