LTC2941
1
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Typical applicaTion
DescripTion
Battery Gas Gauge
with I
2
C Interface
The LT C
®
2941 measures battery charge state in battery-
supplied handheld PC and portable product applications.
Its operating range is perfectly suited for single-cell Li-Ion
batteries. A precision coulomb counter integrates current
through a sense resistor between the battery’s positive
terminal and the load or charger. The measured charge
is stored in internal registers. An SMBus/I
2
C interface
accesses and configures the device.
The LTC2941 features programmable high and low thresh
-
olds for accumulated charge. If a threshold is exceeded, the
device communicates an alert using either the SMBus alert
protocol or by setting a flag in the internal status register.
The LTC2941 requires only a single low value external
sense resistor to set the current range.
FeaTures
applicaTions
n
Indicates Accumulated Battery Charge and
Discharge
n
High Accuracy Analog Integration
n
High Side Sense
n
1% Charge Accuracy
n
±50mV Sense Voltage Range
n
SMBus/I
2
C Interface
n
Configurable Alert Output/Charge Complete Input
n
2.7V to 5.5V Operating Range
n
Quiescent Current Less Than 100µA
n
Small 6-Pin 2mm × 3mm DFN and 8-Lead
MSOPPackages
n
Low Power Handheld Products
n
Cellular Phones
n
MP3 Player
n
Cameras
n
GPS
Total Charge Error vs
Differential Sense Voltage
+
SENSE
+
I
2
C/SMBus
TO HOST
SENSE
–
LTC2941
AL/CC
SDA
LOAD
0.1µF
2941 TA01a
1-CELL
Li-Ion
R
SENSE
100mΩ
SCL
GND
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V
SENSE
(mV)
0.1
–1.0
0
–0.5
–1.5
0.5
1.0
1 10 100
2941 TA01b
–2.0
V
SENSE
+ = 3.6V
2.0
1.5