ROBUST BMS SOLUTION

Ensures Safe Operation of Li-Ion Battery Packs While Reducing System Cost
Our groundbreaking BMS architecture provides the most comprehensive safety and reliability available while greatly reducing
system cost. It employs a low-power, capacitively coupled daisy chain to overcome the shortcomings of current-driven
architectures.
At the heart of the system is Maxim’s fourth-generation high-voltage battery-management IC (MAX17823). This daisy-chainable
12-cell device integrates a full suite of ISO-26262 diagnostic features to ensure ASIL D compliance. To minimize isolation
requirements, our proprietary architecture utilizes a unidirectional, differential UART-to-SPI bridge (MAX17841B) to provide a
robust interface between the cell monitoring ICs and the BMS microprocessor’s SPI port. This approach only requires one pair of
low-cost transformers at the bottom of the daisy chain to achieve galvanic isolation for the high-voltage electronics. In contrast,
current-driven architectures require isolation transformers at each BMS monitoring IC, imposing a significant cost penalty.
Additionally, Maxim’s proprietary daisy chain achieves the fastest speeds for cell-stack measurements and ASIL diagnostics.
This gives you the most accurate synchronization to pack current measurements and, therefore, most accurate state-of-charge
estimation. The result is higher battery service life, higher driving range per charge, and lower system cost.

Key Advantages
Safe Cost Effective Future Proof
• Proprietary differential UART daisy • Capacitively coupled daisy chain • Superior noise immunity for future
chain has best-in-class EMC/EMI only requires one pair of isolation fast-charge techniques
robustness transformers at bottom of daisy chain
• High robustness for different battery
• Integrated self-diagnostics for ASIL D • Built-in diagnostics minimize part count chemistries
compliance and development costs
• Supports cable lengths greater than 1m
• World-class measurement and for optimal distribution of cells
diagnostic speed at 100 measurements
per second
BMS Product Brief

PACK +
PACK
SWITCHES
MAX17823 BATTERY MAX17880
SLAVE MODULE
MONITOR REDUNDANT
& FAULT
CONTROL MONITOR

TEMP

MAX17823 BATTERY MAX17880

SLAVE MODULE
MONITOR REDUNDANT
& FAULT
CONTROL MONITOR

TEMP

MAX17823 BATTERY MAX17880

SLAVE MODULE
MONITOR REDUNDANT
& FAULT
CONTROL MONITOR

TEMP
DIFFERENTIAL DIFFERENTIAL
UART UART

ISO ISO
MASTER
CONTROLLER

SPI MAX17841B MAX17841B

UART-SPI UART-SPI
INTERFACE INTERFACE

PACK - PACK
SWITCHES

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Rev. 0; January 2014