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May 25, 2021
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Battery Fuel Gauge Design Notes: MAX17048 vs Software Coulomb Counting
A dedicated fuel gauge IC costs $1.20 and handles SOC estimation better than any coulomb-counting firmware I've written. Why I stopped rolling my own and what I gave up.
A dedicated fuel gauge IC costs $1.20 and handles SOC estimation better than any coulomb-counting firmware I've written. Why I stopped rolling my own and what I gave up.
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- battery
- fuel-gauge
- power-management
- embedded
- circuit-design
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Manish Bookreader
Electronics enthusiast, Embedded Systems Expert, Linux/Networking programmer, and Software Engineer passionate about AI, electronics, books, and cooking.
