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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2020
Nxp Usa, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Laurent Bordes, Aucamville, FR;
Simon Bertrand, Ramonville Saint Agne, FR;
Alexis Nathanael Huot-Marchand, Labastidette, FR;
NXP USA, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A battery management system comprises a first and second battery cell controllers and a transmission line providing a point-to-point signal transmission path between the first and second battery cell controllers. At least one of the first and second battery cell controllers includes a logic circuit constructed and arranged for encoding data for transmission as a serial data stream along the signal transmission path in compliance with a multi-level encoding technique. The logic circuit comprises an encoding/decoding circuit that generates a modulated signal of the serial data stream over at least three discrete signal levels at a predetermined and fixed data pulse frequency for transmission through the transmission line and encodes a plurality of data units of the serial data stream into a data packet. The data packet includes at least three symbols constructed and arranged with at least four consecutive transmissions per symbol. Each transmission of each symbol assumes one of the three discrete signal levels. At least one transceiver is configured in a transmit mode or a receive mode and that discards any combinations of the maximum number of possible combinations to reduce a source of electromagnetic interference (EMI) on the transmission line.