
KIT33771TPLEVB evaluation board,
Rev. 2.0
NXP Semiconductors
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Getting to know the hardware
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Device features
The MC33771 is a battery cell controller IC designed to monitor battery characteristics, such as voltage, current and temperature. The
MC33771 contains all the circuit blocks necessary to perform synchronous battery voltage/current measurement, coulomb counting, cell
temperature measurement and integrated cell balancing. The device supports the following functions:
Table 1. MC33771 device features
Device
Description
Features
MC33771
Battery cell controller
• 9.6 V VPWR, 61.6 V operation, 70 V transient
• SPI or isolated 2.0 MHz differential communication
• Synchronized cell voltage/current measurement with coulomb count
• Total stack voltage measurement
• Seven ADC/GPIO/temperature sensor inputs
• Addressable on initialization
• 5.0 V at 5.0 mA reference supply output
• Integrated sleep mode over/undervoltage and temperature monitoring
• Over/undervoltage, over/undertemperature fault verification
• Onboard 300 mA passive cell balancing with diagnostics
• Open cell pin detection
• Internal diagnostics
• Hot plug capable
• Operational low-power mode