The L9963E from STMicroelectronics is a Li-ion battery monitoring and protecting chip serving high-reliability automotive applications and energy-storage systems. The chip can connect and monitor up ...

A daisy chain consisting of multiple devices can be quite cumbersome to control, especially when the only device that needs updating is the last one in the chain. Each device in the chain must be ...

Renesas has introduced a battery pack monitor for long strings of cells that uses an ac-coupled bus to solve the thorny problem of passing data up and down the line. At the same time, it revealed a ...