1-chip solution advances automotive battery monitoring (Embedded Systems Programming

[Rick]

Norwood, Mass.—Analog Devices' ADuC703x family of Smart Battery Sensors, claiming the first single-chip solution for precision battery management in automotive applications, integrates high-precision data acquisition of current, voltage, and temperature, a programmable flash memory-based MCU, and a local interconnect network (LIN)-based controller with high-voltage transceiver, all in a small

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[shamaal]

$6.73 each seems a bit steep. An aftermarket drop-in would have included an idiot light instead of a computer connection.

A desirable added feature would be an added comparator to check for bad battery connections.