SLUSBS8B December 2013 – November 2019 BQ40Z50
PRODUCTION DATA.
As with the cell connections, the quality of the Kelvin connections at the sense resistor is critical. The sense resistor must have a temperature coefficient no greater than 50 ppm in order to minimize current measurement drift with temperature. Choose the value of the sense resistor to correspond to the available overcurrent and short-circuit ranges of the BQ40Z50. Select the smallest value possible to minimize the negative voltage generated on the BQ40Z50 VSS node(s) during a short circuit. This pin has an absolute minimum of –0.3 V. Parallel resistors can be used as long as good Kelvin sensing is ensured. The device is designed to support a 1-mΩ to 3-mΩ sense resistor.
The ground scheme of BQ40Z50 is different from the older generation devices. In previous devices, the device ground (or low current ground) is connected to the SRN side of the Rsense resistor pad. The BQ40Z50, however, connects the low-current ground on the SRP side of the Rsense resistor pad, close to the battery 1N terminal (see Lithium-Ion Cell Connections). This is because the BQ40Z50 has one less VC pin (a ground reference pin VC5) compared to the previous devices. The pin was removed and was internally combined to SRP.