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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2019
Applicant:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Inventors:
Timothy Murphy, Ramona, CA (US);
Srinadh Madhavapeddi, Dallas, TX (US);
Terry Lee Sculley, Lewisville, TX (US);
Assignee:
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/30 (2006.01); G06F 11/22 (2006.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01); G06F 11/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/3058 (2013.01); G06F 11/076 (2013.01); G06F 11/2074 (2013.01); G06F 11/221 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system includes a battery and a monitoring circuit coupled to the battery. The monitoring circuit includes a sense circuit and a peripheral device coupled to the sense circuit. The peripheral device includes a universal asynchronous receiver-transmitter (UART) receiver having an adaptive sample timing circuit with a numerically-controlled oscillator (NCO) circuit. The peripheral device also includes memory coupled to the UART receiver and configured to store battery monitoring data.