Catalina Thermal

• See venice/thermal for more information about reducing thermals with your SBC

Catalina Power Draw and Dissipation

The following table provides typical power consumption (Watts) for the various Venice board models without any attached peripherals.

Scenario	Linux idle	1400mhz stress	1800mhz stress	eth0 GbE link	eth0 iperf	10gbe link	10gbe iperf
GW9201-S00 (imx95, 16gb dram)	5.16	7.44	8.64	5.51	6.17	6.65	7.63
GW9201-S02 (imx95, 4gb dram)	4.98	7.27	8.2	4.74	5.41	6.61	8.19

Notes:

• Initial revision A power draw numbers

See DVFS for more details.

Reducing Power

NXP has several excellent application notes on how to reduce the power for the various CPUs. See the following links:

AN14449: i.MX 95 Power Consumption Measurement ​Link

Low Power Sleep Mode

Read more AN14935: How to Use Low Power Compute Mode on i.MX 95 and i.MX 943: ​https://docs.nxp.com/bundle/AN14935/page/topics/introduction.html

The single board computer also as a seperate Gateworks System Controller that can completely shut down the entire board and sleep for a defined amount of time, only drawing power from the small onboard coin cell battery. Read more here: gsc