TI Confidential – NDA Restrictions
TI Confidential — NDA Restrictions
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BQ79612-Q1
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BQ79614-Q1
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BQ79616-Q1
SLUSB75 –MARCH 2020
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Product Folder Links: BQ79612-Q1 BQ79614-Q1 BQ79616-Q1
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9 Detailed Description
9.1 Overview
The BQ7961x-Q1 device is a stackable battery monitor that measures cell voltages and temperature. The device
supports 6 to 16 series-connected (6S to 16S) battery cells. It allows up to 3 bus bar connections and
measurements using cell sensing input channels or a dedicated bus bar channel maximizing the device flexibility
to support various battery module sizes.
Multiple devices can be connected in a daisy chain. Each device has a pair of high (north) and low (south)
vertical differential communication ports, requiring only one twisted pair cable. The device supports either
capacitive only, capacitive and choke, or transformer isolation. Communication is reclocked on each daisy-
chained device, ensuring communication integrity for long distances. An optional RING connection is supported
to reverse the daisy chain communication direction in case of cable failure. Each device includes a SPI master
configured through the GPIOs.
The device is ASIL-D compliant on voltage and temperature measurements, and communication. The ADCs in
the daisy-chained devices can be configured to align the start of cell voltage measurements and all cell voltages
can be measured within 128 μs. Each cell sensing channel includes with a post-ADC digital low-pass filter (LPF)
for noise reduction as well as providing moving average measurement results. The device has 8 GPIOs, all of
which are configurable for NTC thermistor connections or use as general purpose I/O. All 8 GPIOs can be
measured within 1.6 ms.
The device supports passive balancing through an internal cell balancing MOSFET (CBFET) for each cell. The
balancing function runs autonomously without microcontroller (MCU) interaction. It includes an option to pause
and then resume balancing based on a programmable threshold detected by the external thermistor or if the die
temperature is too high (greater than 105°C). Once balancing starts, the device tracks the balancing time on
each cell. MCU can read out the remaining balancing time at any time.
The device includes a hardware OVUV comparator and an OTUT comparator with user configurable thresholds.
These can be used as a second-level protector for cell over- and undervoltage and thermistor over- and
undertemperature detections independent of ADC measurements.
The device provides an option to embed fault status information to the communication frame. When a device in
the daisy chain detects a fault condition, this information is embedded and travels along the communication
response frame to the bottom device which can be configured to trigger an NFAULT pin as an interrupt signal to
the system. This provides a way to reduce communication overhead without adding an additional twisted pair
cable and isolation for faster fault detection.
The device has SLEEP and SHUTDOWN modes for lower power consumption. All functions work in ACTIVE
mode, balancing and hardware comparators for OVUV and OTUT also work in SLEEP mode. While in
SHUTDOWN, all active functions are turned off. A HW reset function is available and can be activated by the
host MCU. The HW reset provides a POR-like event to the device without actual battery removal. This provides a
reliable, low cost, and recoverable option to improve overall system robustness.
9.2 Functional Block Diagram
The BQ79616 functional block diagram also applies to BQ79614 and BQ79612 but with fewer VC and CB input
channels.