Intel i5-2520M FF8062700840017 User Manual
Product codes
FF8062700840017
Power Management
40
Datasheet
4
Power Management
This chapter provides information on the following power management topics:
• ACPI States
• Processor Core
• Integrated Memory Controller (IMC)
• PCI Express
• Direct Media Interface (DMI)
• Integrated Graphics Controller
• Processor Core
• Integrated Memory Controller (IMC)
• PCI Express
• Direct Media Interface (DMI)
• Integrated Graphics Controller
4.1
ACPI States Supported
The ACPI states supported by the processor are described in this section.
4.1.1
System States
4.1.2
Processor Core/Package Idle States
Table 6.
System States
State
Description
G0/S0
Full On
G1/S3-Cold
Suspend-to-RAM (STR). Context saved to memory (S3-Hot is not
supported by the processor).
supported by the processor).
G1/S4
Suspend-to-Disk (STD). All power lost (except wakeup on PCH).
G2/S5
Soft off. All power lost (except wakeup on PCH). Total reboot.
G3
Mechanical off. All power (AC and battery) removed from system.
Table 7.
Processor Core/Package State Support
State
Description
C0
Active mode, processor executing code.
C1
AutoHALT state.
C1E
AutoHALT state with lowest frequency and voltage operating point.
C3
Execution cores in C3 flush their L1 instruction cache, L1 data cache,
and L2 cache to the L3 shared cache. Clocks are shut off to each core.
and L2 cache to the L3 shared cache. Clocks are shut off to each core.
C6
Execution cores in this state save their architectural state before
removing core voltage.
removing core voltage.