PXI BMS Test System Steers Toward Automotive Power Management

Dec. 15, 2022

Effective testing of battery-management systems (BMS) is a critical aspect of automotive performance verification.

This video is part of our electronica 2022 coverage.

The effective testing of battery-management systems (BMS) is a critical aspect of automotive performance verification. Here, a Pickering engineer, at the company's electronica 2022 exhibit, explains how a battery simulator can simulate a low-power battery stack for the purpose of validating a BMS design.

The battery stack simulation must be fully programmable for output voltage for each cell, and the stack has to be capable of both sourcing current and sinking current.

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Alix Paultre | Editor-at-Large, Electronic Design

An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the US military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications in the embedded electronic engineering space. Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.

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