Datasheet

Features
Accurate measurement of avail
-
able capacity in Lithium Ion bat
-
teries
Provides a low-cost battery man
-
agement solution for pack
integration
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Complete circuit can fit in as
little as
1
2
square inch of PCB
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Low operating current (120µA
typical)
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Less than 100nA of data
retention current
High-speed (5kb) single-wire
communication interface (HDQ
bus) for critical battery
parameters
Monitors and controls charge FET
in Li-Ion pack protection circuit
Direct drive of remaining capacity
LEDs
Measurements automatically
compensated for rate and
temperature
16-pin narrow SOIC
General Description
The bq2050H Lithium Ion Power
Gauge™ IC is intended for battery-
pack or in-system installation to
maintain an accurate record of
available battery capacity. The IC
monitors a voltage drop across a
sense resistor connected in series
between the negative battery termi
-
nal and ground to determine
charge and discharge activity of
the battery. Compensations for bat
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tery temperature, self discharge,
and rate of discharge are applied to
the charge counter to provide avail
-
able capacity information across a
wide range of operating conditions.
Battery capacity is automatically re
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calibrated, or “learned,” in the
course of a discharge cycle from full
to empty.
Nominal available capacity may be
directly indicated using a five-
segment LED display. These seg-
ments are used to graphically indi
-
cate available capacity. The
bq2050H also supports a simple
single-line bidirectional serial link
to an external processor (common
ground). The 5kb HDQ bus interface
reduces communications overhead
in the external microcontroller.
Internal registers include available
capacity, temperature, scaled avail
-
able energy, battery ID, battery
status, and Li-Ion charge FET
status. The external processor may
also overwrite some of the bq2050H
power gauge data registers.
The bq2050H can operate from the
batteries in the pack. The REF out
-
put and an external transistor allow
a simple, inexpensive voltage regu-
lator to supply power to the circuit
from the cells.
1
bq2050H
LCOM LED common output
SEG
1
/PROG
1
LED segment 1/
program 1 input
SEG
2
/PROG
2
LED segment 2/
program 2 input
SEG
3
/PROG
3
LED segment 3/
program 3 input
SEG
4
/PROG
4
LED segment 4/
program 4 input
SEG
5
/PROG
5
LED segment 5/
program 5 input
CFC Charge FET control
output
1
PN2050H1.eps
16-Pin Narrow SOIC
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
16
15
14
13
12
11
10
9
V
CC
REF
PSTAT
HDQ
RBI
SB
DISP
SR
LCOM
SEG
1
/PROG
1
SEG
2
/PROG
2
SEG
3
/PROG
3
SEG
4
/PROG
4
SEG
5
/PROG
5
CFC
V
SS
V
SS
System ground
SR Sense resistor input
DISP
Display control input
SB Battery sense input
RBI Register backup input
HDQ Serial communications
input/output
PSTAT Protector status input
REF Voltage reference output
V
CC
Supply voltage
Pin Connections
SLUS150–MAY 1999 D
Low-Cost Lithium Ion Power Gauge™ IC
Pin Names

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