SLVAE87A December 2020 – October 2023 BQ79600-Q1 , BQ79612-Q1 , BQ79614-Q1 , BQ79616-Q1 , BQ79652-Q1 , BQ79654-Q1 , BQ79656-Q1
Single ended communication lines with the BQ79616-Q1 normally refers to the base device in a stack that communicates with the host microcontroller through SPI and UART (SPI only available using BQ79600-Q1). There are two main ways to configure the base device. The first is using the BQ79600-Q1 as a bridge device as shown in Figure 8-1 and the second utilizes an isolation circuit with the base device as described in Figure 8-2. This document will introduce using BQ79616-Q1 as a base device. Refer to the BQ79600-Q1 data sheet and design considerations to use communication extender, bridge device. An overview of how a bridge device should be configured is shown in Figure 8-1.