RE: [PATCH 0/1] TWL: USB: disable VUSB regulators

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On Wednesday 21 January 2009, Kalle Jokiniemi wrote:
> > The TWL5030/4030 internal VUSB regulators are eating current
> > like small piggies.
>
> Feral pigs are a big problem in many places ...
> no surprise that feral code is too!

A simple but impacting point is a LDO when left on, wastes a lot of system power.

If you have say 4.4v battery and it goes to a LDO which supports a 1.8v IO.  The LDO will drop a lot of power on the floor.  A design with a 3.6v batter to the same LDO drops less power.  Twl5030 can consume a lot of power if your not watching at the system level.

For processor rails VCORE (omap2), VDD1/VDD2 (omap3) at least there is a DCDC switcher which is somewhat efficient. This gives you your 1.2v with out dumping everything.

Didn't know Dave was such a poet :)

Regards,
Richard W.

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