nPM1300: Fuel gauge

The Fuel gauge sample demonstrates how to calculate the battery state of charge using the nRF Fuel Gauge library.

Requirements

The sample supports the following development kits:

Hardware platforms

PCA

Board name

Build target

nRF9160 DK

PCA10090

nrf9160dk_nrf9160

nrf9160dk_nrf9160

nRF5340 DK

PCA10095

nrf5340dk_nrf5340

nrf5340dk_nrf5340_cpuapp

nRF52 DK

PCA10040

nrf52dk_nrf52832

nrf52dk_nrf52832

nRF52840 DK

PCA10056

nrf52840dk_nrf52840

nrf52840dk_nrf52840

The sample also requires an nPM1300 EK.

Overview

This sample allows to calculate the state of charge, time to empty and time to full information from a battery connected to the nPM1300 PMIC.

Wiring

  1. Connect the TWI interface between the chosen DK and the nPM1300 EK as in the following table:

    nPM1300 EK connections.

    nPM1300 EK pins

    nRF52 DK pins

    nRF52840 DK pins

    nRF5340 DK pins

    nRF9160 DK pins

    SDA

    P0.26

    P0.26

    P1.02

    P0.30

    SCL

    P0.27

    P0.27

    P1.03

    P0.31

    VDDIO

    VDD

    VDD

    VDD

    VDD

    GND

    GND

    GND

    GND

    GND

  2. Make the following connections on the nPM1300 EK:

    • Connect a USB power supply to the J3 connector.

    • Connect a suitable battery to the J2 connector.

    • On the P2 pin header, connect VBAT and VBATIN pins with a jumper.

    • On the P17 pin header, connect all LEDs with jumpers.

    • On the P13 pin header, connect RSET1 and VSET1 pins with a jumper.

    • On the P14 pin header, connect RSET2 and VSET2 pins with a jumper.

Building and running

This sample can be found under samples/pmic/native/npm1300_fuel_gauge in the nRF Connect SDK folder structure.

To build the sample with Visual Studio Code, follow the steps listed on the How to build an application page in the nRF Connect for VS Code extension documentation. See Configuring and building an application for other building scenarios, Programming an application for programming steps, and Testing and optimization for general information about testing and debugging in the nRF Connect SDK.

Testing

After programming the sample to your development kit, complete the following steps to test it:

  1. Connect the kit to the computer using a USB cable. The kit is assigned a COM port (Windows) or ttyACM device (Linux), which is visible in the Device Manager.

  2. Connect to the kit with a terminal emulator (for example, nRF Connect Serial Terminal). See Testing and optimization for the required settings and steps.

If the initialization was successful, the terminal displays the following message with status information:

PMIC device ok
V: 4.101, I: 0.000, T: 23.06, SoC: 93.09, TTE: nan, TTF: nan

Symbol

Description

Units

V

Battery voltage

Volts

I

Current

Amps (negative for charge, positive for discharge)

T

Temperature

Degrees C

SoC

State of Charge

Percent

TTE

Time to Empty

Seconds (may be NaN)

TTF

Time to Full

Seconds (may be NaN)

Dependencies

The sample uses the following sdk-nrfxlib library:

In addition, it uses the following Zephyr libraries: