Venice Thermal

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

Venice Power Dissipation

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

Scenario	Linux idle	1200mhz stress	1600mhz stress	eth0 GbE link	eth0 iperf	eth1 link	eth1 iperf
GW7000 (SoM only)	1.31	2.05	2.31
GW7001 (SoM only)	1.36	2.20	2.50
GW7101	1.94	2.98	3.52	2.41
GW7201-01	3.88	4.87	5.40	4.428		4.90
GW7300-00	4.54	5.59	5.85	4.80	5.46	4.73	5.50
GW7301-01	4.82	5.85	6.13	5.07	5.65	5.01	5.44
GW7401 (3)	3.2	4.1

• IMX8MM FEC GbE Link costs ~250mW and ~840mW when passing line speed traffic
• LAN743x PCIe GbE Link costs ~190mW and ~620mW when passing line speed traffic
• (3) GW7401 has an i.MX8M Plus compared to the rest of the family, which has an i.MX8M Mini.

Notes:

• GW7000 - Quad Core 1600MHz IMX8MM 1GiB LPDDR4, 8GiB eMMC
• GW7001 - Quad Core 1600MHz IMX8MM 4GiB LPDDR4, 64GiB eMMC
• GW7300-00 - Quad Core 1600Mhz IMX8MM 1GiB LPDDR4, 8GiB eMMC, 2x USB2, 2x GbE, 3x PCIe+USB2
• GW7301-01 - Quad Core 1600Mhz IMX8MM 4GiB LPDDR4, 64GiB eMMC, 2x USB2, 2x GbE, 3x PCIe+USB2, GPS, WiFi/BT

See DVFS for more details.

Reducing Power

NXP has several excellent application notes on how to reduce the power for the various i.MX8M CPUs. See the following links:

AN12410 i.MX8M Mini ​Link

AN12778 i.MX8M Nano ​Link

AN13054 i.MX8M Plus ​Link

Low Power Sleep Mode

The Venice family has a M4/M7 coprocessor that may allow for low power / sleep functions. Read more at venice

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