LTC2941
OPERATION
Overview
Aprogrammableprescalerisincrementedordecremented
every time the integrator changes ramp direction. The
prescaler effectively increases integration time by a factor
Mprogrammablefrom1to128. Ateachunderoroverflow
oftheprescaler, theaccumulatedchargeisincrementedor
decremented one count. The value of accumulated charge
The LTC2941 is a battery gas gauge device designed for
use with single Li-Ion cells and other battery types with
a terminal voltage between 2.7ꢀ and ±.±ꢀ. A precision
coulomb counter integrates current through a sense
resistor between the battery’s positive terminal and the
load or charger.
2
is read via the I C interface.
Power-Up Sequence
Coulomb Counter
+
When ꢀ
rises above a threshold of approximately
SENSE
Charge is the time integral of current. The LTC2941 mea-
suresbatterycurrentbymonitoringthevoltagedeveloped
acrossasenseresistorandthenintegratesthisinformation
2.±ꢀ, the LTC2941 generates an internal power-on reset
(POR) signal and sets all registers to their default state.
In the default state, the coulomb counter is active. The
accumulated charge is set to mid-scale (7FFFh), the
low threshold registers are set to 5555h and all the high
threshold registers are set to FFFFh. The alert mode is
enabled and the coulomb counter pre-scaling factor M
is set to 128.
+
to infer charge. The differential voltage between SENSE
–
andSENSE isappliedtoanauto-zeroeddifferentialanalog
integrator to convert the measured current to charge.
When the integrator output ramps to REFHI or REFLO
levels, switches S1, S2, S3 and S4 toggle to reverse the
rampdirection. Byobservingtheconditionoftheswitches
and the ramp direction, polarity is determined.
STATUS
CHARGER
LOAD
CONTROL
REFHI
+
ꢀ
SUPPLY
CONTROL
+
–
SENSE
AL/CC
S1
LOGIC
1
±
3
4
REGISTERS
–
+
–
PRE-
SCALER
M
2
S2
S3
SCL
SDA
I C/
R
SENSE
SMBus
ACR
SENSE
GND
+
–
I
6
2
BAT
S4
POLARITY
DETECTION
THRESHOLDS
+
REFLO
BATTERY
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Figure 3. Coulomb Counter Section of the LTC2941
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