SLUSBV4B June 2018 – September 2020 BQ40Z80
PRODUCTION DATA
As with the cell connections, the quality of the Kelvin connections at the sense resistor is critical. The sense resistor must have a temperature coefficient no greater than 50 ppm to minimize current measurement drift with temperature. Choose the value of the sense resistor to correspond to the available overcurrent and short-circuit ranges of the BQ40Z80. Select the smallest value possible to minimize the negative voltage generated on the BQ40Z80 VSS node(s) during a short circuit. This pin has an absolute minimum of –0.3 V. Parallel resistors can be used as long as good Kelvin sensing is ensured. The device is designed to support a 1-mΩ to 3-mΩ sense resistor, and a 1-mΩ sense resistor is used, shown as R52. When using 1-mΩ, large currents during a short circuit event can cause the voltage across the sense resistor to exceed the abs max of the pin. Therefore, it is required to place 100-Ω series resistors R47 and R48 as shown in the schematic.