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Product category: Power Supply ICs and Controllers
News Release from: Maxim Integrated Products | Subject: DS2790
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 10 August 2006

IC brings measurement to simpler battery
formats

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Dallas Semiconductor's DS2790 is a real first: an affordable device for incorporating fuel-gauging and protection in single cell battery devices.

Anyone wanting to incorporate sophisticated algorithms for fuel-gauging into single cell systems has traditionally had a problem, with no affordable option being available The DS2790 from Dallas Semiconductor is set to change all that

This Li-ion (Li+) fuel gauge and protector is programmable and designed for single-cell applications.

It incorporates a MAXQ microcontroller, as well as ample program and data memory as part of an accurate system for battery current, voltage and temperature measurement.

In the past, manufacturers have been forced to adapt ICs designed for 9- to 12-cell count battery packs like those in notebook computers.