Li-Ion Battery Monitoring and Balancing IC About this document User Manual for multi-cell monitoring and balancing ICs TLE9012AQU & TLE9015QU evaluation kits designed for Li-ion battery packs used in hybrid electric vehicles (HEV), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV), battery electric vehicles (BEV) as well as in stationary Lithium-Ion batteries.
Hardware elements of the Demo Kit Note: All different versions of the evaluation boards are compatible to each other and can be used in the same daisy chain. The following hardware is necessary to start with the TLE9012AQU Demo Kit: • TLE9012AQU Demo Board •...
User Manual Demo Kit TLE9012AQU & TLE9015QU Getting started • Resistor ladder (cable with orange connector) is connected to the TLE9012AQU demo board (orange connector) as shown in Figure 3 on the left side. In V5 of the evaluation kit, the resistor ladder is included on the PCB and connected through a solder bump.
The following steps are required to setup the frameword for the Demo Kit. 1.4.1 DAS tool The DAS tool is a USB driver software provided by Infineon. It is required to connect the AURIX hardware kit to the PC environment.
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Figure 6 AURIX initialize Open the device manager and expand “Universal Serial Bus controllers”. Right click on “Infineon DAS JDS COM” to open the properties. Select the tab “Advanced”, check “Load VCP” and click “OK”. User Manual BMS Demo Kit Rev.
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User Manual Demo Kit TLE9012AQU & TLE9015QU Getting started Figure 7 Configuration of the COM port Disconnect the USB cable and power supply and reconnect. After pressing “START”, check the COM port number in the device manager by expanding “Ports (COM &LPT)”. A port number is assigned to the AURIX kit.
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User Manual Demo Kit TLE9012AQU & TLE9015QU Getting started Figure 10 Create or use default Click “Finish” and save the target configuration file then select “OK”. After selecting the target configuration, click on “Connect”. If connection is successful, you will be able to see this message “ready for Memtool Command”.
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User Manual Demo Kit TLE9012AQU & TLE9015QU Getting started Figure 12 Execute Memtool command Note: For further details or support on how to flash the AURIX TFT kit, please refer to https://www.infineon.com/aurix User Manual BMS Demo Kit Rev. 1.0 2020-06-04...
User Manual Demo Kit TLE9012AQU & TLE9015QU Terminal Terminal A terminal program (e.g. TeraTerm) can be used to communicate with the BMS IC. The configuration of the serial port is shown in Figure Figure 13 Serial port setup After successful configuration, a user manual is available by sending “?”.
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User Manual Demo Kit TLE9012AQU & TLE9015QU Terminal Figure 15 Terminal script to read out all CVMs The result registers can be copied into an Excel sheet to calculate the cell voltages (in mV) out of the hex register values. Therefore, the lines shown in Figure 15 need to be marked and copied by selecting “Edit”...
User Manual Demo Kit TLE9012AQU & TLE9015QU Revision History Revision History Revision Date Changes 2020-06-04 Initial User Manual User Manual BMS Demo Kit Rev. 1.0 2020-06-04...
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