...the world's most energy friendly microcontrollers
2016-04-28 - Giant Gecko Family - d0053_Rev1.20
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3 System Overview
3.1 Introduction
The EFM32 MCUs are the world’s most energy friendly microcontrollers. With a unique combination of
the powerful 32-bit ARM Cortex-M3, innovative low energy techniques, short wake-up time from energy
saving modes, and a wide selection of peripherals, the EFM32GG microcontroller is well suited for
any battery operated application, as well as other systems requiring high performance and low-energy
consumption, see Figure 3.1 (p. 5) .
3.2 Block Diagram
Figure 3.1 (p. 5) shows the block diagram of EFM32GG. The color indicates peripheral availability
in the different energy modes, described in Section 3.4 (p. 7) .
Figure 3.1. Block Diagram of EFM32GG
Clock Managem ent
Energy Managem ent
Serial Int erfaces
I/ O Port s
Core and Mem ory
Tim ers and Triggers
Analog Int erfaces
Securit y
32- bit bus
Peripheral Reflex Syst em
ARM Cort ex
™
- M3 processor
Flash
Program
Mem ory
LESENSE
High Freq.
RC
Oscillat or
High Freq.
Cryst al
Oscillat or
Tim er/
Count er
Low Energy
Tim er
Pulse
Count er
Real Tim e
Count er
Low Freq.
Cryst al
Oscillat or
Low Freq.
RC
Oscillat or
Wat chdog
Tim er
RAM
Mem ory
Ex t . Bus
Int erface
General
Purpose
I/ O
Mem ory
Prot ect ion
Unit
DMA
Cont roller
Debug
Int erface
w/ ETM
Ex t ernal
Int errupt s
Pin
Reset
Hardware
AES
Giant Gecko
LCD
Cont roller
ADC
DAC
Operat ional
Am plifier
USB
USART
Low
Energy
UART
I
2
C
UART
Power- on
Reset
Volt age
Regulat or
Back- up
Power
Dom ain
Volt age
Com parat or
Brown- out
Det ect or
TFT
Driver
Back- up
RTC
Pin
Wakeup
Ult ra Low Freq.
RC
Oscillat or
Analog
Com parat or
Aux High Freq.
RC
Oscillat or
Figure 3.2. Energy Mode Indicator
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