JAJU880 December 2022
This design uses four 2-mΩ, 2-W, 50-PPM shunt resisters in parallel to measure pack current. The board offset was calibrated using the guidance of the Calibration section of the BQ76942 Evaluation Module user's guide. Then current gain was calibrated with 5-A discharging current and also followed the guidance of the Calibration section of the BQ76942 Evaluation Module. Write the board offset and current gain values with one-time-programmable (OTP) to the bottom BQ76942, otherwise the MCU has to store such data and write to the bottom BQ76942 every time the device wakes up from shutdown mode. Figure 3-3 shows the pack current accuracy data under room temperature. The maximum current error is below ±30 mA when the discharging current is below 5 A and ±0.5% when the discharging current is above 5 A.