Automated power

摘要

Sambit Panigrahi is system integration and tools lead in the battery-management solutions group at Texas Instruments (Dallas, TX). He's responsible for integrating systems used to test ICs such as battery fuel gauges that manage power for rechargeable batteries. The gauges can support batteries that are available in more than 600 different packages and chemistries and may have up to four cells. Senior technical editor Martin Rowe spoke with Panigrahi by telephone.