Ricoh’s latest battery management IC is designed for lithium-ion or lithium-polymer battery packs of three up to five cells in series. The R5601 analogue front end IC is a measurement device designed to work with a microcontroller with all threshold settings saved in the software of the MCU. Communications is via a 2-wire I2C interface. …
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