DALLAS-Texas Instruments said it has introduced the world’s first complete battery fuel gauge for cellular handsets and personal digital assistants.
“With today’s announcement, TI simplifies the design of a cost-effective accurate battery fuel gauge in single cell applications by offering a solution that performs all the necessary intelligent calculations on-chip, significantly reducing the amount of calculations performed by the host-side microcontroller,” said Peter Fundaro, worldwide marketing manager for TI’s battery management products.