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Power consumption (SBC Lynx)

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Idle configurations
 Two custom power probes have been used:*power probe #1 is connected to the input power rail (12V) supplying the entire system*power probe #2 is connected to the input power rail of the PMIC NXP PF3000 (nominal voltage is 3.75V); this, in turn, powers the processor subsystem.=== Heavy load configurations===Measurements have been performed on the following platform:
* SBC Lynx rev.A (S-XUBB0110C1R)
* System software: XUELK 1.1.0
** U-Boot: U-Boot 2015.04-xuelk-1.1.0 (Nov 25 2016 - 16:43:19), Build: jenkins-XUELK_U-Boot-8
** Kernel: Linux sbc-lynx 3.14.52-xuelk-1.1.0-00026-g88e5473 #36 SMP PREEMPT Tue Dec 13 15:20:14 CET 2016 armv7l GNU/Linux
*root file system is stored on NAND flash
* processor's LDO is enabled (required to perform voltage scaling).
The following table shows the summary result of data collected at different checkpoints.
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** uSD card: read/write/verify operations
** Ethernet: <code>iperf</code> TCP test running
** NAND: RFS
=== Idle configurations ===
* SBC Lynx rev.A (S-XUBB0110C1R)
* System software: XUELK 1.1.0
** U-Boot: U-Boot 2015.04-xuelk-1.1.0 (Nov 25 2016 - 16:43:19), Build: jenkins-XUELK_U-Boot-8
*** bootcmd: mw.l 21b0020 800; run net_nand
** Kernel: Linux sbc-lynx 3.14.52-xuelk-1.1.0-00026-g88e5473 #36 SMP PREEMPT Tue Dec 13 15:20:14 CET 2016 armv7l GNU/Linux
*** branch: http://gitlab.lan.dave.eu/lynx/linux-2.6-imx/commits/dev-1.1.0-powerConsumption** RFS: R:\opt\nfsroot\lynx\xuelk-1.1.0-networking* root file system stored in nand* ethernet on via ifconfigNAND flash
* CAN transceiver not present
===Optimized idle===
In this case the <code>powersave </code> governor is used. Most importantly, Ethernet interface is disabled, as described in i.MX 6UltraLite Power Consumption Measurement application note[2]. <ref name="AN5170">NXP Semiconductors, ''i.MX 6UltraLite Power Consumption Measurement'', Rev. 1, 04/2016</ref> This allows to reduce power consumption significantly because 
* processor's peripheral bus can be disabled as well
* external PHY is put in power-down mode.
===Heavy load configurations===
Measurements have been performed on the following platform (also denoted as ''testbed1'' in the rest of the document):
* SBC Lynx rev.0 (S-XUBB0000C0R) equipped with a plug-in board for 24-bit RGB LCD interfacing
*LCD p/n: KOE TX11D06vm2Apa (https://www.koe-europe.com/doc/TX11D06VM2APA.pdf)
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