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The basics of low power programming on the Cortex-M0-October 26, 2011 |
Joseph Yiu, ARM Ltd.
EETimes (10/25/2011 9:19 PM EDT)
The ARM Cortex-M0 processor has been designed to provide low-power advantages over other processors. In this article I will discuss how some of these features can be used to advantage in programming for this architecture.
Cortex-M0 sleep modes
The Cortex-MO processor supports normal sleep and deep sleep modes. The sleep modes can be entered using WFE or WF1 instructions, or using Sleep-on-Exit feature.