Power Management
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7.1
About power management
The processor extensively uses gated clocks to disable unused functionality, and
disables inputs to unused functional blocks, so that only actively used logic consumes
any dynamic power.
The ARMv7-M architecture supports system sleep modes that can stop the Cortex-M3
and system clocks for greater power reductions. These are described in
System power
management
on page 7-3.