SLUSCM6E June 2016 – April 2019 BQ35100
PRODUCTION DATA.
The BQ35100 device is intended for systems where the battery electronics are required to consume a very low average current. To achieve this, the device is intended to be fully powered off when not required through control of the GAUGE ENABLE (GE) pin. When this pin is low, then the device is fully powered down with no measurements being made and no data, unless in flash, is retained.
An example system current profile is shown along with the state of GAUGE ENABLE to reduce the average power consumption of the battery electronics.
The average power consumption of the BQ35100 device is an average of the periods where GAUGE ENABLE is high AND low over a given period.
For example, if the system enters a high power state (500 µA) for 30 s every 4 hours, the average current will be:
When GAUGE ENABLE is low (GE = Low), then the device is powered off and the current is nominally ICC_GELOW, and is the leakage current into the REGIN pin. Other components connected to this node should also be evaluated to determine the "System Off" current total.
When the device is used for gas gauging, it transitions through several power states based on the selection of OperationCfgA[GMSEL].
Figure 11 highlights the operational flow and conditional decisions.