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There are two distinct methods of clock gating. The first uses the ICR CPU register and the CPU'sIDLE instruction. This method is used for the following domains: CPU, IPORT, DPORT, MPORT, XPORT & HWA. See Figure 1-3for a diagram of these domains. In this method, the ICR is written with a value indicating the desired clock gating configuration and then (possibly much later) the IDLE instruction is executed. The contents of the ICR do not become effective until the IDLE instruction is executed. The second method uses system registers, PCGCR1 & PCGCR2. These registers control most of the peripheral clock domains and writes to this register take effect immediately.

The SYSCLKDIS bit in PCGCR register has global effect and, therefore, is a superset of the two methods. When this bit as asserted the whole device is clock gated with the exceptions of the PLL, the USB PLL, the RTC, and the oscillators.

NOTE: Stopping clocks to a domain or a module within that domain only affects active power consumption; it does not affect leakage power consumption.

NOTE: The on-chip Bootloader idles all peripherals and CPU ports at startup, but it enables some peripherals as it uses them. Application code should not assume all peripherals and CPU ports are disabled. To get the minimum power consumption, make sure to disable all peripherals and CPU ports first and then enable only necessary peripherals and CPU ports before using them.

1.5.3.1CPU Domain Clock Gating

Two registers are provided to individually configure and monitor the clock gating modes of the CPU domain: the idle configuration register (ICR) and the idle status register (ISTR).

ICR lets you configure how the CPU domain will respond the next time the idle instruction is executed. When you execute the idle instruction, the content of ICR is copied to ISTR. Then the ISTR values are propagated to the different portions of the CPU domain.

In the CPU domain, there are five CPU ports.

•IPORT: this port is used by the CPU for fetching instructions from external memory.

•DPORT: this port is used by the CPU when reading and writing data from/to external memory.

•XPORT: this port is used by the CPU when reading and writing from/to IO-space (peripheral) registers.

•MPORT: this port is used by the four DMAs, the USB'sCDMA, and the LCD controller'sDMA when accessing SARAM or DARAM.

•MPORT: this port is used by the four DMAs and the USB'sCDMA when accessing SARAM or

DARAM.

•HWA: this port is the hardware accelerator (FFT coprocessor). It shares all CPU buses.

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