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White Paper
Freescale Technologies for
Energy Efficiency
Overview
The design of an electronic system is almost always constrained by power and energy considerations—whether it
is battery life for a mobile device, thermal power dissipation in a high-performance processor or ultra-low power
consumption for a wireless sensing application. In addition, recent economic forces and increased environmental
awareness have changed the landscape for new product design. Now energy efficiency is often the lead discussion
as companies formulate new product strategies. However, even though energy budgets are playing a larger role
in determining the finished designs, manufacturers realize that the market will not allow them to compromise on
performance. In response to these challenges, Freescale has adopted a comprehensive approach to optimize its
products for high performance within constrained energy budgets.
This optimization is tackled across a broad front, including semiconductor process technologies, circuit design
techniques, system architectures, platform configurations and design methodologies. For CMOS technologies, novel approaches are used to
reduce both static (leakage) power and dynamic (switching) power. This is increasingly important as CMOS geometries continue to shrink and
static power becomes an even larger portion of the total energy used.
As a result, Freescale is a recognized leader in the design of high-performance, energy-efficient semiconductor products. Underscoring this,
Freescale has introduced the Energy-Efficient Solutions mark to highlight selected products that excel in effective implementation of energy-
efficiency technologies that deliver market-leading performance in the application spaces they are designed to address.
This white paper discusses how Freescale technologies for energy efficiency are used to dramatically lower power consumption without
sacrificing performance and functionality, and highlights a selection of Freescale products that use these technologies to achieve exceptional
overall energy efficiency.
Contents
The Design Challenge ............................................................................3
Architectural and Platform Techniques ..................................................3
Circuit Techniques ..................................................................................4
Software ................................................................................................5
Process Technology ...............................................................................6
Design Methodology and Tools .............................................................6
Energy-Efficient Technology at Work .....................................................7
MC9S08LL16 8-bit MCU ..................................................................7
QE Family of MCUs ..........................................................................7
i.MX Family of Application Processors .............................................8
MPC8536E PowerQUICC® III Communications Processor .............8
MMA7660FC 3-axis Digital Output Accelerometer ..........................9
MC56F8006/2 Digital Signal Controller ............................................9
MPR031 and MPR03x Capactive Touch Sensors ..........................10
Conclusion ...........................................................................................10
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The Design Challenge
It’s a balancing act. Manufacturers are trying to create products that
push the limits of speed and functionality, yet they are expected to run
on next to nothing. Tip the high performance/low power balance too
far to one side and you will not satisfy the consumers who demand
both performance and efficiency with few, if any, compromises.
One may think this balancing act applies only to portable devices—an
MP3 player that runs all day but can download any tune in seconds
and store thousands like it. But that’s not true. Plugged or unplugged,
applications designed today must consider the total cost of using
energy and the impact any excess will have on the environment. For
instance, in a 24-hour day, office appliances connected on a LAN
will draw power continuously, but may actually “work” for only a
few minutes, seconds or even microseconds. Therefore, it’s just as
important to optimize products for energy efficiency while they sleep as
it is while they work. Consumers and businesses alike cannot afford to
pay for any wasted energy.
Unfortunately, there is no single power reduction technique that is able
to meet all the system requirements for energy minimization. The trick
is to effectively combine architectural, platform and circuit techniques,
system and application software, process technology and design
methodology and tools to intelligently develop semiconductor designs
for energy-efficient operation in all applications.
Freescale’s Energy Efficiency Target illustrates how these technologies
and techniques are integrated into the full development process
designed to achieve optimal energy efficiency. Each area of technology
can be optimized toward more efficient operation while still contributing
to overall performance goals.
As you investigate the following technology descriptions, keep in mind
that they are all part of a unified development process that aims to
maximize energy efficiency as an essential ingredient for any high-
performance automotive, networking, industrial or consumer system.
Architectural and Platform Techniques
At the architectural level, energy efficiency technologies use circuit
techniques to enable energy savings across the chip design. Using
multiple power modes is a good example.
On-chip power modes are designed to offer peak application
performance (and attendant energy consumption) only when absolutely
necessary. To deliver the greatest energy efficiency over the life of the
application, on-chip power modes such as run, wait, stop and standby,
are used to manipulate power usage to get the most efficient use of
the available energy source. This is a particularly effective strategy for
portable hand-held devices and office automation systems on a LAN
that periodically engage in short bursts of activity.
Platforms are made up of a collection of component modules
connected together for a specific purpose. A platform may be
a collection of modules on a board, in a package or in a single
semiconductor device. The combination of modules provides yet
another opportunity for energy efficiency optimization.
For platform power modes, the power saving modes can be extended
to board-level applications. For example, in a memory hold mode,
everything can be powered-down except the PMIC and memory, which
is kept in a state-retention mode. This is a very low-power state, and
in many applications different components, such as an application or
baseband processor, will have to reboot at wake up, creating some
latency issues. However, if the core processor is kept in a low-leakage
standby mode, wake up is much quicker because the baseband
reboot won’t be necessary. The application requirements will often
dictate which memory hold state is used for best performance/energy
efficiency optimization.
Figure 1. Freescale Energy Efficiency Target
The Freescale Energy Efficiency Target is a holistic approach to energy
management, where interaction among the technologies and techniques is critical
to achieve optimal energy savings.
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Circuit Techniques
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To avoid forfeiting energy efficiency for greater application
effectiveness we rely on an entire spectrum of circuit techniques, which
when used in combination help regain the energy efficiency edge
without sacrificing optimal performance characteristics.
• Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) allows on-the-fly
frequency adjustment according to existing system performance
requirements. By lowering the frequency, it is possible to lower the
operating voltage (on-the-fly as well), dramatically reducing the
power consumption. There are two common implementations of
this methodology—hardware-assisted and software-enabled. The
DVFS hardware mechanism automatically monitors the processor
load and controls supply voltage and frequency with minimal
software and operating system involvement. Circuits without DVFS
hardware can still implement DVFS through enabling software.
• Clock gating is an effective strategy that is widely used to help
reduce power consumption while maintaining the same levels of
performance and functionality. A circuit uses more power when it’s
being clocked than when the clock is gated or turned off. Clocks
can consume as much as 40 percent of active power. By shutting
off the clocks and stopping the data toggling in unused portions
of the semiconductor we can realize sizable energy savings,
particularly when the gating is engineered to control the toggling
at the individual instruction level.
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A typical clock tree where individual modules can be clock gated when not in use.
Automatic clock gating control by the modules simplifies the software control.
• State-retention power gating (SRPG) is a technique that allows the
voltage supply to be reduced to zero for the majority of a block’s
logic gates while maintaining the supply for the state elements of
that block. SRPG can thereby greatly reduce power consumption
when the application is in stop mode, yet it still accommodates
fast wake up times. Reducing the supply to zero in stop mode
allows both dynamic and static power to be removed. Retaining
the supply on the state elements allows processing to continue
quickly when exiting stop mode.
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Since the state of the digital logic is stored in the flip flops, if the flip flops are
kept on a constantly powered voltage grid, the intermediate logic can be put
onto a voltage grid that can be power gated. When the voltage is reapplied to the
intermediate logic, the state of the flip flops will be re-propagated through the logic
and the system can start where it left off.
• Our dynamic process temperature compensation (DPTC)
mechanism measures the frequency of a reference circuit on
the product. This reference circuit captures the product’s speed
dependency on the process technology and existing operating
temperature. The DPTC then lowers the voltage to the minimum
level needed to support the existing required operating frequency.
Regulator design is a special technique in which the design options
are dictated by what’s best for whatever application the solution is
designed to serve. For instance, a switching regulator is more efficient
than a linear or low-dropout (LDO) regulator. However, LDOs are not
as costly (you don’t need an inductor or other components) and inject
less noise into the power supply line. They may be a better choice for
radio frequency (RF) applications, where low noise is the dominant
requirement.
Switching regulators normally operate at high frequency using pulse-
width modulation (PWM) techniques. Under light load conditions,
the switching regulator may transition to pulse frequency modulation
(PFM) to maintain high power conversion efficiency. This technique,
also called pulse skipping, allows high-efficiency switching regulation
under light loads. PFM, with its longer cycle time, is slower to wake
from a sleep mode. However, in applications where energy efficiency
is critical, designers and users are normally willing to give up a little
speed for a longer battery life.
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Switching Regulator
Linear Regulator
• Dynamic power coordination—This process manages a
database of registered devices and drivers, detailing their
various power-related aspects, such as capabilities, states,
associations (keyboard should prompt LCD to power on, etc.) and
dependencies (device A should never be powered down when
device B is in use, etc.). It also manages complex combinations
of associations, dependencies, allowable power states and use
cases based on a set of policy rules.
• In addition, dynamic power coordination can include priority-
based task scheduling to ensure that time-sensitive work can
meet deadlines while still maintaining low-power status. Tasks
can be reordered or postponed, if non-critical, to allow more time-
sensitive tasks to complete.
• Device management—The wonderful power-saving features built
into the hardware are pointless unless they are effectively used.
Software power management can communicate with the device
drivers to:
Selectively control device power states and low-power
modes
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Provide functional clock gating and SRPG
• Event-based decisions—Software can respond to events
(interrupts) instead of constantly polling for status. It can respond
to a number of external inputs, including ambient light detection to
reduce LCD brightness, various switches, closing lids (as in laptop
PCs) and a variety of human-interface mechanisms.
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Figure 4: Switching and linear regulators
This illustrates the differences between switching and linear regulators.
Software
Software can play a significant role in how efficiently a system
performs. Software-based power management provides a flexible and
scalable framework that communicates with hardware through device
drivers, manages use-case policies, models performance requirements
real-time and responds to external interfaces and event notifications.
This framework allows the software to dynamically coordinate power-
saving techniques across several hardware components. However,
the efficiency of the software itself has a crucial impact on the power
efficiency as well. Well-written code in addition to a well-optimized
compiler will help reduce memory requirements and will lead to lower
software overhead and reduced stack inefficiencies.
• Efficient code—Memory uses a lot of the system’s power.
Minimizing code can trim overall memory requirements and reduce
power usage. Efficient code can also decrease OS overhead, such
as entering and exiting tasks or servicing interrupts, and it can
cut the number of wasted cycles, including pipeline stalls, cache
misses and scheduling slack.
• Performance modeling—Heuristic and stochastic prediction
modeling can be used to estimate the length of inactivity a device,
subset of devices or an entire system will experience. Then, based
on the implementation and policy in place, the model will decide
whether to place the components into a low-power mode, reduce
the operating clock frequency and system voltages or turn off the
appropriate devices.
Performance modeling can also exploit the deterministic behavior of
an RTOS to predict future power needs. Using the RTOS scheduling
requirements, the system or various components can be placed in low-
power modes or turned off if the expected idle time exceeds a specific
time-period threshold. The software can also track active and ready-to-
run functions and estimate how much processing power is required to
meet any critical deadlines or minimum power levels.
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Process Technology
Process technology is the basic building block of any semiconductor
product. The characteristics of the process determine the power
consumption of circuits built on that process. Our technologies for
energy efficiency include process considerations targeted specifically
for power-optimized circuit operations. Associated techniques for
limiting power consumption include:
• Multi-VT process—Each transistor in a semiconductor design
has an associated threshold voltage (VT) that determines the
drive current of that transistor. A lower VT transistor offers higher
performance because of the increased drive current available
from that transistor. However, the electrical characteristics of
lower VT transistors tend to make them higher leakage devices.
Our manufacturing processes allow us to include both high
and low VT transistors in the same chip. We can design our
circuits using low VT transistors only for those critical paths that
need the extra performance. The remainder can use higher VT
transistors, which have the advantage of lower leakage current,
which translates into lower standby current. In addition, Freescale
uses innovative structures, materials and process techniques to
optimize a transistor’s performance while minimizing the leakage.
These techniques are used to help improve the efficiency of all
transistors, whether high VT or low VT.
• Active well bias—Well-biasing techniques help control channel
leakage currents. Active well bias enhances the energy/
performance relationship by manipulating transistor performance
real-time. With an active back bias technique we use a low VT
device for maximum performance, then raise the threshold in
standby mode, thus providing two performance levels in one
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Active well bias affects the threshold voltage, which in turn affects the sub-
threshold leakage currents. If the body of a PMOS device is increased above VDD
or the body of an NMOS device is reduced below ground, the device is said to be
in back bias and the sub-threshold leakage current can be reduced.
• SMARTMOS™ Technology—Freescale’s hybrid processing and
integration techniques offer another powerful tool to create highly
energy-efficient devices. Our SMARTMOS technology enables
high density analog/mixed-signal integration, highly efficient power
MOSFETs and complex digital circuitry on a single die. It allows
our power management IC (PMIC) solutions to incorporate load
protection, high-power efficiency and multiple outputs—even as
die sizes shrink—without eroding overall device performance.
Introduced two decades ago, SMARTMOS technology has
been scaled through multiple generations and is under continual
development to improve its capabilities.
Power MOSFETs must be conductive with low switching losses
to achieve the most efficient use of the available power supply.
Freescale’s SMARTMOS technology allows for optimizing the
MOSFET design for both drain-to-source resistance and gate
charge control by making the gate oxide very thin along with
using precise doping techniques to and achieve very low drain-to-
source resistance.
The thinner gate oxide allows us to reduce the gate area on the silicon
and minimize the charge required to drive the gate, thus reducing
switching circuit losses.
Design Methodology and Tools
The physical mapping of the chip design can have a significant effect
on energy efficiency by simply shortening the signal and clock routes.
For instance, the global clock distribution design must appropriately
manage the delays to the end tap points. A poorly designed, ad-hoc
distribution may increase the amount of buffering necessary to correct
skew at the tap points. This buffering can add to the power dissipation
in the clock network. A well-structured distribution can lead to a more
efficiently balanced clock tree.
Support/analysis, design, implementation, architecture and power
estimation tools help ensure system-to-silicon IC design optimization
across power, throughput, latency and area constraints. They
help designers create a reliable methodology for energy-efficient
semiconductor design, such as:
• Support/analysis—Library creation and characterization, along
with power monitoring tools, helps support the module design and
chip implementation teams as well as use-case power analysis.
• Design—Creating the modules used in the product design, tools
assist in module functionality and power partitioning as well as
module power estimation.
• Implementation—Integration optimization of all modules into a
product. Tools include floor planning, synthesis, clock tree creation
and embedded power, timing and power supply voltage (IR drop)
analysis.
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• Architecture—Performance/power trade-off analysis for inter- and
intra-chip partitions plus use-case analysis.
A platform power estimation tool is used to combine the platform
connectivity, the component architecture information, the module
power data and the use-case definition into a common database to
calculate the estimated power of the platform for a given application.
The output of the platform power estimation tool breaks down the
power usage per component and module to identify areas of the
platform to optimize for overall power.
Energy-Efficient Technology
at Work
High-efficiency embedded technology helps
engineers develop automotive, networking,
industrial and consumer applications that
meet or exceed user expectations for low-
power, low-cost operation. The benefits
include longer operating times for portable
applications, more efficient data centers
and smart electric grids, which further
enable plug-in hybrid electric vehicles,
the seamless integration of renewable
energy sources, adoption of green building
standards and many other industry initiatives and applications.
Energy-Efficient Solutions by Freescale are specifically designed to
lead the evolution of a more energy-efficient world by integrating the
processes we’ve discussed in this paper to produce highly optimized
platforms for the next generation of energy-efficient products and
services.
MC9S08LL16 8-bit MCU
The S08LL16 is Freescale’s most efficient 8-bit LCD controller, having
less than 50 percent of the current draw of previous generation
Freescale S08LC60 devices. Based on Freescale’s QE family LVLP
technology, the LL16 MCU demonstrates extreme low-power
characteristics in power specs and power modes for battery-powered
portable applications in the medical, consumer and industrial markets.
The LL16 MCU achieves extraordinary low-power results through:
• An improved time-of-day (TOD) module with reduced functionality
from previous modules (a simple quarter-second counter): less
switching = less power. In addition, the peripheral logic runs at
a reduced speed of 2 Hz rather than at the bus clock and the
reset synchronizer is clock gated to reduce unnecessary power
consumption.
• An improved internal clock source (ICS) with reduced-length clock
traces between the ICS, oscillator and TOD modules: less length =
less capacitance = less power.
• LVLP features shared with the QE family of MCUs include VLP
oscillator, low-dropout standby regulator, 6 μs stop 3 wakeup time,
low-power run and wait modes, SATO, user-selectable peripheral
clock gating and clock tree synthesis.
These low-power features enable consumer, industrial and wireless
LCD applications that provide ultra-long life (up to ten years) using
a variety of batteries, including AA, AAA, lithium coin size and 3.6V
lithium. The LL16 has a rich LCD drive capability with internal RTC
interruptions and other power-saving features:
• 1 kHz low-power oscillator used with a counter refreshes
reference capacitor without being on all the time
• Low-power waveforms result in less frequent and less drastic
transitions, which leads to lower power consumption
• Shoot-through current resistance circuit grounds switches before
changing LCD bias levels
• Full non-overlapping clocks on LCD charge pump
• Optimized LCD driver circuit size for low-power LCD glass
• Distributed RAM at the LCD pins minimizes loading, which
reduces the LCD driver’s voltage domain
• Hardware display blink and alternating display modes without
CPU wake
Based on the same testing environment, the LL16 LCD performance
can provide over 70 percent improvement in power consumption
compared to market solutions. For instance, with LCD segments
configured ALL OFF with no contrast control, low-power mode, crystal
oscillator enabled, 32 Hz frame rate, 4 x 22, the IDD is just 1.2 μA. With
segments configured ALL ON with contrast control (3.08V) the IDD is
still only 3.3 μA.
The S08LL16 MCU is an incredibly versatile LCD controller, not only
offering low-power characteristics that broadens its target market
to small, battery-powered applications but also providing improved
design flexibility with a large segment-based 8 x 24 or 4 x 28 driver
and an integrated charge pump to enable true system-on-chip
functionality.
QE Family of MCUs
The QE family includes Freescale’s lowest power MCUs and is the
basis for other derivative low-voltage, low-power (LVLP) devices in the
portfolio. The QE family of 8-bit S08 and 32-bit V1 ColdFire® MCUs are
particularly useful in consumer and industrial applications that require
ultra-long battery life.
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The LVLP process employs transistors with an increased channel
length that reduces leakage current, which decreases static power
consumption. We have subsequently optimized our standard cell
library, which includes a number of low-power elements. LVLP features
also include:
• Very-low-power (VLP) oscillator that consumes only 500 nA.
• Low-dropout standby regulator that enables low-power run.
• Low-power run and wait modes with regulator off.
• Wake up from sleep without reset.
• Stop 3 wake up time has been reduced from 110 μs to 6 μs,
which means an application can wake up, perform a task and
quickly go back to sleep to save additional power.
• Shared current reference and bandgap reduces the number of
required transistors, therefore saving power and shrinking the
silicon footprint.
• User-selectable peripheral clock gating enables energy-efficient
optimization of the clock tree, which can consume up to 40
percent of the power used by the different modules.
• A self-timeout block (SATO), where flash memory is powered
up long enough to perform a read with the result latched then
automatically powered down. This process automatically kicks
in at very low CPU rates and provides a much better (at low
frequencies) IDD versus frequency curve for flash operation.
Freescale.com also features a battery consumption calculator for
the QE family. Users can input different system parameters, such as
device, environmental settings, battery information, duty cycle, system
options and the number of active modules to calculate the average
battery life for that system. It’s a handy, easy-to-use tool that can help
designers fine tune design proposals for maximum battery life.
The QE family of MCUs provides excellent solutions for portable
battery-powered devices, such as digital cameras and camcorders,
cordless phones, home health care devices and hand-held instruments.
The family is also well-suited for low-power building automation
applications, such as gas and water meters, thermostats, remote
controls and security.
i.MX Family of Application Processors
The i.MX family includes ARM core-based processors for automotive,
consumer and industrial applications. i.MX processors employ
Freescale’s Smart Speed™ technology that uses hardware accelerators
to offload the CPU and a 6 x 5 Smart Speed crossbar switch that
nearly eliminates wait states. This enables fewer effective cycles per
instruction, helping drive a performance equivalent to higher clock
frequency processors without the power consumption penalty that
accompanies higher operating frequencies.
i.MX application processor family members employ
additional techniques to enhance energy efficiency:
• Clock gating, active well-biasing, DVFS, DPTC and SRPG.
• Multiple low-power modes, including wait, doze, state retention,
sleep and hibernate.
• Clocking scheme designed to allow optimal frequency setting and
clock source re-use for low-power applications.
• Space-division multiple access (SDMA) module and special
busses connection allowing management of a number of data
paths without OS involvement, keeping the CPU in standby mode.
• Integrated secure real-time clock (SRTC) allows shutting down
the processor and power gating all supplies, except RTC supply
voltage, while keeping the SRTC running and able to wake the
system through a timer time-out event.
In addition, hardware accelerators are used for items that would
ordinarily require heavy processing from the CPU, which saves power
during run mode. i.MX application processors provide optimal power
savings through integrated power management or paired with external
Freescale power management IC solutions. Software development kits
offer drivers for both the processor and companion PMIC to enable
customers to successfully implement the low-power techniques in their
final product designs.
MPC8536E PowerQUICC® III
Communication Processor
The MPC8536E processor is designed to implement office automation
equipment (printing and imaging, network attach storage, media
processing, digital signage and more) that require compliance to regional
energy initiatives. These include such programs as Top Runner (Japan),
Energy using Product (EU) and Energy Star (USA). In this capacity, the
MPC8536E has accomplished a number of firsts:
• First Freescale PowerQUICC III processor that implements deep
sleep mode in a single-chip SoC.
• First Freescale PowerQUICC III processor that implements core
clock scaling (jog mode).
• First gigahertz SoC in the industry to provide a data path for
network traffic during deep sleep mode with packet-lossless
deep sleep.
The combination of fast run mode, jog mode and fast recovery from
packet-lossless deep sleep mode creates a market-first embedded
energy/workload pacing usage model. It’s important to remember that
the world is not just connected, it’s always connected. This “net effect”
is why carefully managing different performance cycles (“pacing”
energy for long periods of inactivity interrupted by short burst of
work) to fulfill application needs without losing the connection is so
important. And this is what the MPC8536E processor is designed
to do.
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