12.2 Overview

Sleep modes are used to shut down peripherals and clock domains in the device in order to save power. The Sleep Controller (SLPCTRL) controls and handles the transitions between Active and sleep modes.

There are four modes available: One Active mode in which software is executed, and three sleep modes. The available sleep modes are Idle, Standby and Power-Down.

All sleep modes are available and can be entered from the Active mode. In Active mode, the CPU is executing application code. When the device enters sleep mode, the program execution is stopped. The application code decides which sleep mode to enter and when.

Interrupts are used to wake the device from sleep. The available interrupt wake-up sources depend on the configured sleep mode. When an interrupt occurs, the device will wake up and execute the Interrupt Service Routine before continuing normal program execution from the first instruction after the SLEEP instruction. Any Reset will take the device out of sleep mode.

The content of the register file, SRAM and registers, is kept during sleep. If a Reset occurs during sleep, the device will reset, start and execute from the Reset vector.