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Tutorial 08 - Power management
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For embedded systems, power consumption is critical. The Raspberry Pi 3 has a very sophisticated
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PM interface. You can turn each device on and off idependently. There's a catch though, the GPIO
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VCC pins are hardwired, there's no way to turn them off programatically. This means if you connect
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some devices to them, you'll have to implement a way to turn those devices off (with a transistor
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connected to a data GPIO pin for example).
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Power.h, power.c
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The power management controller is one of the periphels that are not emulated properly by qemu.
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Works on real hardware though.
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`power_off()` shutdowns the board to a almost zero power consumption state.
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`reset()` reboots the machine. Also handled by the PMC, and since the Raspberry Pi does not have
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a hardware reset button, it's very useful.
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Main
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We display a simple menu, and wait for user input. Depending on the input, we reboot the system or
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power it off.
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