When it comes to power optimization, it is imperative to consider how the SoC will be used in a given system alongside total system power optimization and not just the SoC power - a key part of the holistic approach. Minimizing the number of dedicated power rails needed by SoC not only simplifies the power-supply solution. AM62x device is architected with a shared core vdd along with flexibility to scale voltage level to meet the demands of wide range of applications.

Selecting the right core voltage for a given application results in an optimized system power. The AM62x device is able to demonstrate that by scaling core power supply from 0.8 V, the standard core voltage for the process node, to 0.75 V, there was a total of 15% reduction in active power. On the other hand, where performance is a key care about, scaling the core power supply from 0.8 V to 0.85 V resulted in 15% increase in device performance.

The AM62x processor supports simple core power supply without DVFS/AVS and enables 100K POH with the fixed core voltage for entire SoC with full performance entitlement.