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Reduced processing time Very fast wake up time
Very low active
power consumption
10 Low-Energy Design Factors
EFM32TG
µA/MHz
@3V
EFM32ZG
µA/MHz
@3V
150 110
CoreMark/MHz
Cortex-M0+ Cortex-M3 Cortex-M4
2.42 3.32 3.40
Wake-up time from sleep modes
2 µs
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Autonomous
peripherals
Peripheral
Reflex System
Ultra-low
standby current
10 Low-Energy Design Factors
Direct peripheral interconnection
system
Boosting the value of autonomous
operation
Highly configurable
Operation while CPU sleeps
Extensive DMA Support
All peripherals can
operate autonomously
Shutoff
current @ 3V
Deep Sleep @ 3V
incl. POR, BOD, RTC,
RAM and CPU retained
20 nA 900 nA
Reflex Producers Reflex Consumers
ARM Cortex -M
processor
Z
Z
Z
Peripheral
Reflex
System
ADCTimer GPIO DAC
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Ultra energy
efficient peripherals
Low Energy
Sensor Interface
Well designed
Energy Modes
10 Low-Energy Design Factors
EM0 “Run Mode”: 110 µA/MHz
EM1 “Sleep Mode”: 45 µA/MHz
EM2 “Deep Sleep Mode”: 900 nA
RTC, Brown-Out Detection, RAM and CPU retained
EM3 “Stop Mode”: 500 nA
Brown-Out Detection, RAM & CPU retained
EM4 “Shutoff Mode”: 20 nA
Pin/GPIO Reset,
RTC + 512-byte backup memory : 400 nA
Analog to Digital Converter
12-bit @ 1 MSamples/s: 350 µA
Low Energy UART
Full UART with 32 kHz clock
150 nA @ 9600 baud/s
LCD Controller
Directly driving up to 8x36 segment LCDs
Boost/Contrast/Animation/Blink
550 nA for 4x40
Autonomous sensor monitoring
in deep sleep
Up to 16 sensors simultaneously
Highly configurable
Resistive, Capacitive, Inductive
EFM32
Z
Z
Z Z Z
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10 Low-Energy Design Factors
AEM - Advanced Energy Monitoring and the energyAware Profiler
The energyAware Profiler is an
energy debugging tool that use
Advanced Energy Monitoring
(AEM) data available from the
development tools to perform real-
time profiling and debugging of the
associated object code.