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Chapter 4

Power Management

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25175H—March 2003

AMD Athlon™ XP Processor Model 8 Data Sheet

Preliminary Information

4

Power Management

This chapter describes the power management control system
of the AMD Athlon™ XP processor model 8. The power
management features of the processor are compliant with the
ACPI 1.0b and ACPI 2.0 specifications.

4.1

Power Management States

The AMD Athlon XP processor model 8 supports low-power
Halt and Stop Grant states. These states are used by advanced
configuration and power interface (ACPI) enabled operating
systems for processor power management.

Figure 3 shows the power management states of the processor.
The figure includes the ACPI “Cx” naming convention for these
states.

Figure 3. AMD Athlon™ XP Processor Model 8 Power Management States

C1

Halt

C0

Working

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Note:

The AMD Athlon

TM

System Bus is connected during the following states:

1)

The Probe state

2)

During transitions between the Halt state and the C2 Stop Grant state

3)

During transitions between the C2 Stop Grant state and the Halt state

4)

C0 Working state

Software transitions

Hardware transitions

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