FEATURES
Indicates Accumulated Battery Charge
n
and Discharge
High Accuracy Analog Integration
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High Side Sense
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1% Charge Accuracy
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±50mV Sense Voltage Range
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2
SMBus/I
C Interface
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Configurable Alert Output/Charge Complete Input
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2.7V to 5.5V Operating Range
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Quiescent Current Less Than 100µA
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Small 6-Pin 2mm × 3mm DFN and 8-Lead
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MSOP Packages
APPLICATIONS
Low Power Handheld Products
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Cellular Phones
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MP3 Player
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Cameras
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GPS
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TYPICAL APPLICATION
CHARGER
SENSE
LTC2941
AL/CC
2
I
C/SMBus
SDA
SENSE
TO HOST
SCL
GND
Document Feedback
Battery Gas Gauge with I
LOAD
0.1µF
+
R
SENSE
100m
–
+
1-CELL
Li-Ion
2941 TA01a
For more information
DESCRIPTION
The
LTC
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
accesses and configures the device.
The LTC2941 features programmable high and low
thresholds 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 inter-
nal status register.
The LTC2941 requires only a single low value external
sense resistor to set the current range.
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Total Charge Error vs
Differential Sense Voltage
2.0
V
= 3.6V
SENSE +
1.5
1.0
0.5
0
–0.5
–1.0
–1.5
–2.0
0.1
1
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LTC2941
2
C Interface
2
C interface
10
100
V
(mV)
SENSE
2941 TA01b
Rev. C
1
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