Texas Instruments Incorporated Deutschland, Gmbh

Texas Instruments Corporation

Andreas Fees

Lutz Albrecht Naumann

Karl-Heinz Steinmetz

Ivo Huber

Adrian Helwig

Wendyam Traore

An integrated battery charger protection circuit incorporates a charge control power FET for series connection in the battery load current path from a DC supply input terminal to a controlled DC output terminal. The circuit has a gate drive input terminal connected to the gate of the charge control power FET and further includes protective circuitry adapted to disable the DC output terminal in a fault condition detected within the integrated circuit. The controlled DC output terminal and the gate drive input terminal are connectable to the external charge control host circuit the same way as corresponding terminals of a discrete power FET, in particular of p-channel type.

Enhanced charger over voltage protection FET

A system is provided which includes a signal generator for generating a periodic excitation signal and an analog to digital converter, wherein the system is configured to apply the periodic excitation signal to a network including a known first impedance and a second impedance and to take a first set of M digital samples of a first signal relating to the first impedance and a second set of M digital samples of a second signal relating to the second impedance with a sampling frequency that is an integer multiple of the frequency of the periodic signal. The system is further configured to determine the impedance value of the second impedance by calculating a relative phase difference between the first signal and the second signal using the first set of digital samples and the second set of digital samples.

Apparatus and method for impedance measurement

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