5 power management, 1 general requirements, 2 system power plane – FIC M296 User Manual

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Software Functional Overview

3.5

Power Management

This section provides the Power Management software function of the notebook.

3.5.1 General Requirements

The BIOS meet the following general Power Management requirements:

Refers to the portion of the firmware that is compatible with the ACPI 1.0 specifications.

Support for Suspend-to-RAM (S3 state) and Suspend-to-Disk mode (S4 state).

Support the Wake up event from Modem Ring in S3~S4 state. This is enabled by a CMOS
Setup option.

Support the Wake up event from RTC Time/Date alarm in S3~S4 state. This is enabled by
a CMOS Setup option.

Power Management must not substantially affect or degrade system performance.

3.5.2 System Power Plane

The system components are grouped as the following parties to let the system to control the
On/Off of power under different power management modes.
The power plane is divided as following:

Power Group Power Control Pin Controlled Devices

+B Nil

IMM,

(9V~20V)

+3VA

Nil

SIS961 (RTC I/F), Internal Modem Ring, PMU08

+12V

PWRON

PCMCIA Card, AC97 Codec

+5V

PWRON

PCMCIA Slot 5V

+3V

PWRON

VGA, PCMCIA, PCMCIA Slot 3V, DRAM,
Twister(DRAM I/F), M38869M8, MAX3243

+5VS

SUSB#

FLASH ROM, HDD, CD-ROM, USB, Internal K/B,
Glide Pad, External P/S2 Mouse, FDD, Audio AMP,
Fan

+3VS

SUSB#

SIS961 (ISA I/F Power), Clock Generator & Buffer
(W137)

+RTCVCCS Nil SIS961

(RTC)

3.5.3 Power Management Mode

z

Full On Mode


The system state where no devices are power managed and the system can respond to

applications with maximum performance.

z

Doze mode


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