SLUSA76B December 2010 – January 2015
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Although it can be powered from low impedance sources like a USB port or wall adapter, this IC's VBUS-DPM feature makes it ideal to be powered from high impedance sources like solar panels or inductor charging pads.
A solar panel with VOC = 6 V in direct sunlight and capable of up to 1 W of output power is available to charge a 500 mAHr LiIon battery at a 1C rate. Because the light itensity will vary over time, this application uses the IC in battery tracking mode. The IC will never use load mode so EN is tied to PG.
The minimum recommend capacitors of 1 µF for VBUS and BAT are used. The pullup resistors for CHG and PG are 2 kΩ.
Using RISET = KISET / IOUT and set IOUT = IC = 500mA gives RISET = 390 AΩ / 500 mA = 780 Ω → 787 Ω closest 1% resistor.
Using Equation 3 and finding RTH(45) from the 103AT-4 thermistor datasheet as 4911 Ω, RT1 = 1 / (0.186) * 4911 Ω - 4911 Ω = 21.492 kΩ → 21.5 kΩ closest 1% resistor.
For battery tracking mode, we leave VDPM floating. If we decided to power the charger using a 5-V wall adapter that a minimum output voltage of 4.6 V, we would size a resistor VDPM to ground using RVDPM = (VBUS_DPM – VBUS_DPM_1)/KVBUS_DPM= (4.6 V - 3.5 V) / ( 0.15 V/kΩ) = 7.333 kΩ → 7.32 kΩ closest 1% resistor.