11.1 Layout Guidelines
A capacitor of at least 1 μF is connected between the VCC pin and VSS. The capacitor should be placed close to the gauge IC and have short traces to both the VCC pin and VSS.
- A capacitor at least 0.1 μF must be connected between the BAT pin and VSS if the connection between the battery pack and the gauge BAT pin has the potential to pick up noise. The capacitor should be placed close to the gauge IC and have short traces to both the VDD pin and VSS.
- If the external pullup resistors on the SCL and SDA lines will be disconnected from the host during low-power operation, TI recommends using external 1-MΩ pulldown resistors to VSS to avoid floating inputs to the I2C engine.
- The value of the SCL and SDA pullup resistors should take into consideration the pullup voltage and the bus capacitance.
- If the GPOUT pin is not used by the host, the pin should still be pulled up to VDD with a 4.7-kΩ or 10-kΩ resistor.
- The BIN pin should not be shorted directly to VCC or VSS.