SLUUCY8 December 2023 BQ77307
The BQ77307 device supports detecting a disconnection between a cell in the pack and the cell attachment to the PCB containing BQ77307. Without this check, the voltage at the cell input pin of the BQ77307 device can persist for some time on the board-level capacitor, leading to incorrect protection decisions. The Cell Open Wire detection in the BQ77307 device operates by enabling a small current source from each cell to VSS at programmable intervals. If a cell input pin is floating due to an open wire condition, this current discharges the capacitance, causing the voltage at the pin to slowly drop. This drop in voltage can eventually trigger a Cell Undervoltage protection fault on that particular cell, as well as a Cell Overvoltage protection fault on the cell above it. It is important that the cell undervoltage and overvoltage protections be enabled with appropriate threshold settings for the open wire condition to be detected and the desired reaction initiated.
The cell open wire protection can be enabled or disabled using the Settings:Protection:Cell Open Wire Check Time[COWEN] configuration bit. If this feature is enabled, the cell open wire current is enabled on each cell, one cell at a time, for approximately 2.93 ms at a rate set by the Settings:Protection:Cell Open Wire Check Time[COWTIME2:0] configuration register. This provides programmability in the average current drawn from ≈79 pA to ≈5 μA, based on the typical current source value of 55 µA.
Bit Setting COWTIME[2:0] | Description |
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0x0 | Current sources are activated once every 8 CHECK intervals |
0x1 | Current sources are activated once every 4 CHECK intervals |
0x2 | Current sources are activated once every 2 CHECK intervals |
0x3 | Current sources are activated once every CHECK interval |
0x4 | Current sources are activated twice every CHECK interval |
0x5 | Current sources are activated four times every CHECK interval |
0x6 | Current sources are activated 8 times every CHECK interval |
0x7 | Current sources are activated 16 times every CHECK interval |