SLUS618I August 2004 – December 2014 BQ24030 , BQ24031 , BQ24032A , BQ24035 , BQ24038
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It is important to pay special attention to the PCB layout. The following provides some guidelines:
The bqTINY III-series is packaged in a thermally enhanced MLP package. The package includes a QFN thermal pad to provide an effective thermal contact between the device and the printed-circuit board (PCB). Full PCB design guidelines for this package are provided in the application note entitled QFN/SON PCB Attachment (SLUA271). The power pad should be tied to the VSS plane. The most common measure of package thermal performance is thermal impedance (θJA) measured (or modeled) from the chip junction to the air surrounding the package surface (ambient).
The mathematical expression for θJA is:
where
Factors that can greatly influence the measurement and calculation of θJA include:
The device power dissipation, P, is a function of the charge rate and the voltage drop across the internal power FET. It can be calculated from Equation 12:
Due to the charge profile of Li-xx batteries, the maximum power dissipation is typically seen at the beginning of the charge cycle when the battery voltage is at its lowest. See Figure 2. Typically the Li-ion battery's voltage quickly (< 2 V minutes) ramps to approximately 3.5 V, when entering fast charge (1-C charge rate and battery above V(LOWV)). Therefore, it is customary to perform the steady-state thermal design using 3.5 V as the minimum battery voltage because the system board and charging device does not have time to reach a maximum temperature due to the thermal mass of the assembly during the early stages of fast charge. This theory is easily verified by performing a charge cycle on a discharged battery while monitoring the battery voltage and chargers power pad temperature.