MPC5746R Hardware Design Guide, Rev. 1
Power Supply
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3.3 External 1.25 V Supply
If an external regulator is used for the VDD_LV supply, the pass transistor is not required. In this case, the 
internal voltage regulator driver should be disabled by setting the REG_SEL bit in the Miscellaneous 
Device Configuration Format (DCF) client. This is accomplished via a DCF record programmed into the 
UTEST flash memory. See the DCF Chapter of the MPC5746R Reference Manual for complete 
information regarding the use of DCF records and UTEST flash memory. 
Note that the VRC_CTRL will remain active until the Reset Generation Module (RGM) enters the reset 
phase 3, where the UTEST configuration is read. When using an external VDD_LV supply, the 
VRC_CTRL pin should be left floating (no connect). See the RGM chapter of the MPC5746R Reference 
Manual for more information.
3.4 Input and output pins power supply segmentation
Each I/O pin is associated with one of the power domains. The majority of the I/O pins are powered by the 
VDD_HV_IO_MAIN. The VDD_HV_IO_JTAG, VDD_HV_IO_FEC, and VDD_HV_IO_MSC domains 
are primarily intended to allow the JTAG, FEC and MSC interfaces to be operated at a voltage level 
different from the VDD_HV_IO_MAIN domain if desired. However, they can also be used to power a 
limited amount of I/O pins at an alternative voltage level.
The voltage level supplied on any I/O domain determines the output voltage level and input transition 
levels for the I/O pins associated with that domain. Each power domain with corresponding I/O pins is 
shown in Table 8. Each power domain needs to be maintained below 80 mA. In addition, the sum of all 
I/O power domains should be maintained below 200mA as described in the MPC5746R Data Sheet. Note 
that, not all of the listed I/O pins are available on some packages.
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Table 8. Power Domains vs. I/O
Power Domain I/O Pins 
VDD_HV_IO_MAIN
PD[0–15] 
PE[0]
PF[0–13]
PG[1–7, 9–15]
PH[0–15]
PI[0–5]
PJ[0–15]
PK[0–2, 4–5, 7–14]
PL[0–1]
VDD_HV_IO_JTAG PB[0–1]
VDD_HV_IO_FEC PC[0–13]
VDD_HV_IO_MSC PA[0–13]
VDD_HV_ADV_SAR
PW[0–3]
PX[0–15]
PY[0–15]
VDD_HV_ADV_SD PZ[0–15]