By Staff, January 17, 2012
For handheld apps, the STC3105 battery monitoring gas gauge pairs a 2 x 3 x 0.8 mm footprint with high measurement accuracy and a 60-µA power consumption to increase battery runtime.
By Staff, August 05, 2011
The LTC35361A synchronous buck-boost dc/dc converter provides up to 1 A at any voltage between 1.8 and 5.5 V from a single Li-Ion/Polymer battery, or 300 mA from a pair of alkaline/NiCd/NiMH batteries.
By Staff, May 09, 2011
Converting externally-compensated dc/dc power supplies into full-featured battery chargers, the LTC4000 high-voltage controller and power manager drives typical dc/dc converter topologies including buck, boost, buck-boost, SEPIC, and flyback.
By Staff, February 18, 2011
The MAX17435 and MAX17535 SMBus battery chargers operate at 850 kHz and 500 kHz, respectively.
By Staff, January 21, 2011
To minimize software overhead, the MAX14566E USB charger identification switch supports the USB battery charging specification, Revision 1.1 as well as the CCSA YD/T 1591-2006 standard for the Chinese market.
By , December 02, 2010
In addition to accelerated charging times, the FAN5400 family of USB-compliant, li-ion switching chargers with USB On-The-Go capabilities promise to overcome the thermal issues associated with current linear chargers.
By Mat Dirjish, September 30, 2010
Charging up an electrical vehicle is no feat of techno wizardry. But how about charging up like some mobile device users do: wirelessly.
By , September 29, 2010
MAX8895 battery charger integrates automatic adapter detection and USB enumeration to optimize charging without an external MCU or software.
By Staff, August 18, 2010
The MAX11068, a high-voltage, 12-cell, battery-monitoring IC for hybrid vehicles, electric vehicles employs a proprietary SMBus-laddered communication bus that allows multiple MAX11068s to be daisy chained.
By Staff, July 29, 2010
The MAX17040 and MAX17041 and MAX17043 and MAX17044 one- and two-cell fuel-gauge ICs estimate a Li+ battery’s state of charge without current sensing.
By Hubert Bugajski, July 19, 2010
An alternative method for switching a load between battery and external charger uses less power than the usual diode-OR circuit. It requires a charger with Power OK (POK) feature.
By Staff, June 03, 2010
Via two inputs, the API9221 lithium ion/polymer battery charger enables USB host and DC adaptor connections, delivering charge currents in accordance with the USB standard or up to 1.2A, respectively.
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