Connector and Support area

The connector area contains holes for two pin headers with 2x6 and 2x2 pins, to give access to several signals and device pins as shown in Table 1 and Table 2.

Pin headers with 2.54mm spacing or wires can be soldered in here. A connector for incircuit programming is mounted. Lastly the area contains cell balancing and a board ID system, which are described in more details in the next subsections.

Table 1. Signals that can be found on the 2x6 pin header holes.
Name Description
PACK+ Battery-pack positive input/output. Also connected to BATT pin.
PACK- Battery-pack negative input/output (ground).
CELL+ Cell stack positive terminal.
CELL- Cell stack negative terminal.
VFET VFET pin.
VREG Regulator output. Connected to VCC.
PV1R Cell1 positive input.
PV2R Cell2 positive input.
PA0 PA0 pin.
PA1 PA1 pin.
PB0 PB0 pin.
PC0 PC0 pin. Used for 1-wire SW-UART. Includes ESD protection.
Table 2. Signals that can be found on the 2x2 pin header holes.
Name Description
C1BO Cell1 Balancing On input.
C2BO Cell2 Balancing On input.
VREF VREF.
VGND VREF ground.

ISP programming via SPI interface. Table 2-3 shows connections. Alternative pin names are also noted.

Table 3. ISP connector (J111) signals
Name Pin no Description
MISO 1 Serial data out. (PB3)
VCC 2 Supply voltage
SCK 3 Serial clock. (PB1)
MOSI 4 Serial data in. (PB2).
RESET 5 Reset signal (active low)
GND 6 Ground