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<i>NuttX RTOS Porting Guide</i>
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<p>Last Updated: March 13, 2016</p>
<p>Last Updated: March 28, 2016</p>
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<h3><a name="pmoverview">6.4.1 Overview</a></h3>
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<b>Power Management (PM) Sub-System</b>.
NuttX supports a simple power management (PM) sub-system. This sub-system:
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Monitors driver activity, and
Monitors activity from drivers (and from other parts of the syste), and
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<b>Low Power Consumption States</b>.
Various &quot;sleep&quot; and low power consumption states have various names and are sometimes used in conflicting ways.
In the NuttX PM logic, we will use the following terminology:
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These various states are represented with type <code>enum pm_state_e</code> in <code>include/nuttx/power/pm.h</code>.
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<b>Power Management Domains</b>.
Each PM interfaces includes a integer <i>domain</i> number.
By default, only a single power domain is supported (<code>CONFIG_PM_NDOMAINS=1</code>).
But that is configurable; any number of PM domains can be supported.
Multiple PM domains might be useful, for example, if you would want to control power states associated with a network separately from power states associated with a user interface.
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<h3><a name="pminterfaces">6.4.2 Interfaces</a></h3>
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All PM interfaces are declared in the file <code>include/nuttx/power/pm.h</code>.