ISL88731C
control byte with the ISL88731C slave address and the
Charger Timeout
R/W bit set to 1, indicating a read. The ISL88731C will
Acknowledge then send the lower byte stored in that
register. After receiving the byte, the master
Acknowledges by holding SDA low during the 9th clock
pulse. ISL88731C then sends the higher byte stored in
the register. After the second byte neither device holds
SDA low (No Acknowledge). The master will then
produce a Stop condition to end the read transaction.
The ISL88731C includes 2 timers to insure the SMBus
master is active and to prevent overcharging the battery.
ISL88731C will terminate charging if the charger has not
received a write to the ChargeVoltage or ChargeCurrent
register within 175s or if the SCL line is low for more than
25ms. If a time-out occurs, either ChargeVoltage or
ChargeCurrent registers must be written to re-enable
charging.
ISL88731C does not support reading more than 1
register per transaction.
ISL88731C Data Byte Order
Each register in ISL88731C contains 16-bits or 2, 8 bit
bytes. All data sent on the SMBus is in 8-bit bytes and 2
bytes must be written or read from each register in
ISL88731C. The order in which these bytes are
Application Information
The following battery charger design refers to the
“Typical Application Circuit” (see Figure 4), where typical
battery configuration of 3S2P is used. This section
describes how to select the external components
including the inductor, input and output capacitors,
switching MOSFETs and current sensing resistors.
transmitted appears reversed from the way they are
normally written. The LOW byte is sent first and the HI
byte is sent second. For example, when writing 0x41A0,
0xA0 is written first and 0x41 is sent second.
Inductor Selection
Writing to the Internal
Registers
The inductor selection has trade-offs between cost, size,
cross over frequency and efficiency. For example, the
lower the inductance, the smaller the size, but ripple
current is higher. This also results in higher AC losses in
the magnetic core and the windings, which decreases the
system efficiency. On the other hand, the higher
inductance results in lower ripple current and smaller
output filter capacitors, but it has higher DCR (DC
resistance of the inductor) loss, lower saturation current
and has slower transient response. So, the practical
inductor design is based on the inductor ripple current
being ±15% to ±20% of the maximum operating DC
current at maximum input voltage. Maximum ripple is at
In order to set the charge current, charge voltage or
input current, valid 16-bit numbers must be written to
ISL88731C’s internal registers via the SMBus.
To write to a register in the ISL88731C, the master sends
a control byte with the R/W bit set to 0, indicating a
write. If it receives an Acknowledge from the ISL88731C
it sends a register address byte setting the register to be
written (i.e. 0x14 for the ChargeCurrent register). The
ISL88731C will respond with an Acknowledge. The
master then sends the lower data byte to be written into
the desired register. The ISL88731C will respond with an
Acknowledge. The master then sends the higher data
byte to be written into the desired register. The
ISL88731C will respond with an Acknowledge. The
master then issues a Stop condition, indicating to the
ISL88731C that the current transaction is complete.
Once this transaction completes the ISL88731C will
begin operating at the new current or voltage.
50% duty cycle or V
= V /2. The required
BAT
IN,MAX
inductance for ±15% ripple current can be calculated
from Equation 3:
V
IN, MAX
⋅ 0.3 ⋅ I
L, MAX
--------------------------------------------------------
L =
(EQ. 3)
4 ⋅ F
SW
Where V
IN,MAX
is the maximum input voltage, F
switching frequency and I
the inductor.
is the
is the max DC current in
SW
L,MAX
ISL88731C does not support writing more than one
register per transaction.
For V
IN,MAX
s
= 20V, V
BAT
= 12.6V, I = 4.5A, and
BAT,MAX
f = 400kHz, the calculated inductance is 9.3µH.
Reading from the Internal
Registers
Choosing the closest standard value gives L = 10µH.
Ferrite cores are often the best choice since they are
optimized at 400kHz to 600kHz operation with low core
loss. The core must be large enough not to saturate at
The ISL88731C has the ability to read from 5 internal
registers. Prior to reading from an internal register, the
master must first select the desired register by writing
to it and sending the registers address byte. This
process begins by the master sending a control byte
with the R/W bit set to 0, indicating a write. Once it
receives an Acknowledge from the ISL88731C it sends a
register address byte representing the internal register
it wants to read. The ISL88731C will respond with an
Acknowledge. The master must then respond with a
Stop condition. After the Stop condition the master
follows with a new Start condition, then sends a new
the peak inductor current I
in Equation 4:
Peak
1
2
--
I
= I
+
⋅ I
RIPPLE
(EQ. 4)
PEAK
L, MAX
Inductor saturation can lead to cascade failures due to
very high currents. Conservative design limits the peak
and RMS current in the inductor to less than 90% of the
rated saturation current.
Crossover frequency is heavily dependent on the inductor
value. F
should be less than 20% of the switching
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