The Texas Instruments single-cell bq27320 battery fuel gauge requires very minimal configuration and system microcontroller firmware development, leading to quick system bring-up. The bq27320 uses the Compensated End-of-Discharge Voltage (CEDV) gas gauging algorithm for fuel gauging, and provides information such as remaining battery capacity (mAh), state-of-charge (%), runtime-to-empty (min), battery voltage (mV), temperature (°C) and state-of-health (%).
TI customers can tune chemistry parameters using TI’s web-based tool, GAUGEPARCAL.
Configurable interrupts help save system power and free up the host from continuous polling. Accurate temperature sensing is supported via an external thermistor.
Battery fuel gauging with the bq27320 requires only PACK+ (P+), PACK– (P–), and optional thermistor (T) connections to a removable battery pack or embedded battery circuit. The device uses a 15-ball NanoFree™ (DSBGA) package. It is ideal for space-constrained applications.
| Top documentation | Type | Title | Format options | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| * | Data sheet | bq27320 Single-Cell CEDV Fuel Gauge datasheet (Rev. A) | PDF | HTML | 28 Mar 2016 |
| User guide | bq27320 Technical Reference Manual (Rev. A) | 15 Mar 2018 | ||
| Application note | Gauge Communication | 12 Jan 2017 | ||
| Application note | Enhanced Resolution Gauging for Low Current Applications Using Scaling | 26 Oct 2016 |
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Battery Management Studio (bqStudio) Documentation
Battery Management Studio (bqStudio) offers a full suite of robust tools to assist with the process of evaluating, designing with, configuring, testing, or otherwise utilizing TI Battery management products. This includes features that provide full access to registers and data memory including support for real-time watching, graphing, and logging, an easy interface to send commands, direct low-level communication and I/O, as well as automated and guided support for configuration, calibration, performing a learning cycle, and generating useful files for taking the device to production.
Older products such as bq20xxx and bq30xxx are not supported in bqStudio. Download the specific evaluation software from the appropriate product page.
Requires: EV2400 or MKST-3P-ALT-EV2300
Single Cell bqProduction software for bq27320
Single Cell bqProduction software for bq27z561
General notes
Overview
SingleCellbqProduction offers a full suite of robust tools to assist with the process of configuring, calibrating, manufacturing and tracking printed circuit boards utilizing TI Battery Battery management products. This includes features that allow writing a golden image followed by different types of calibration to provide desired levels of accuracy and finally validating limits for calibration parameters to spike out any inconsistencies in material. SingleCellbqProduction offers three(3) levels of access to allow strict control over the manufacturing process with the assembly line operator only having access to the "Start" button. SingleCellbqProduction supports 1 station from a single computer and has inbuilt capability to maintain log files for the processed printed circuits boards. The bqMTester hardware is incompatible with some single cell gauges.
Operating systems: Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 10
Requires: MKST-3P-ALT-EV2300 (MKS-SAI-001), Precision voltage and current source/sink for calibration.
Features
Windows Installer for Battery Management Studio (bqStudio)
Use this file with Battery Management Studio (bqStudio) Help menu to import the latest chemistries.
Battery Management Studio (bqStudio) Documentation
Battery Management Studio (bqStudio) offers a full suite of robust tools to assist with the process of evaluating, designing with, configuring, testing, or otherwise utilizing TI Battery management products. This includes features that provide full access to registers and data memory including support for real-time watching, graphing, and logging, an easy interface to send commands, direct low-level communication and I/O, as well as automated and guided support for configuration, calibration, performing a learning cycle, and generating useful files for taking the device to production.
Older products such as bq20xxx and bq30xxx are not supported in bqStudio. Download the specific evaluation software from the appropriate product page.