9.9 Power Consumption Versus Speed

When considering power consumption versus execution speed of the PIC32CM6408PL10, some factors must be taken into account.

Due to the nature of asynchronous clocking for the peripherals, clocking a peripheral at a very low frequency will reduce the active power consumption of the peripheral.

At the same time, synchronization with the synchronous clock domain (MCLK) depends on the peripheral clock speed. With a slower peripheral clock, the response time will be longer and more time will be spent waiting for synchronization to complete.