The challenge in resolving the issue with the blowing MOSFET components was that there was no apparent cause. If all the circuit components worked as expected, the problem should not occur. In an attempt to isolate the cause to a particular part of the circuit design, I replaced the gate dr...
MOSFET temperature sensors of on-chip thermal testing. Sens. Act. A Phys. 2013, 203, 234–240. [CrossRef] 46. Olsson, R.H.; Buhl, D.L.; Sirota, A.M.; Buzsaki, G.; Wise, K.D. Band-tunable and multiplexed integrated circuits for simultaneous recording and stimulation with ...
Here, the power resistor Rn together with MOSFET Qn creates a single balancing circuit branch for battery cell n. When current is flowing through the circuit branch, the energy is being dissipated in the power resistor. In this way, the battery cell connected on that particular branch is ...