Martin Jäger

That FET is used to increase the turn-off speed of the discharge MOSFETs (e.g. in case of a short circuit). It is also used in the TI reference design and...

That rule of thumb with a factor of 10 times gate capacitance was mentioned in the reference manual or one of the other documents provided by TI.

It was not necessarily the datasheet. There are lots of documents for this chip provided by TI, I don't remember which one it was. In any case you can also...

For the connection to GND I was roughly following the TI recommendations in the [LMR16030 data sheet](https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/lmr16030.pdf?ts=1646304542517&ref_url=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.ti.com%252Fproduct%252FLMR16030):  In the datasheet of the LMR33630 it is even made more clear...

Currently we cannot use 16s NMC cells because of the limited voltage range of the power supply. SMCJ70A have a maximum clamping voltage of 113V, which is beyond the rating...

I'm afraid that the only viable option right now is to wait for the LMR38020 to become available and till then use the LMR16030. - The LMR38010 seems to be...

Hi Prithvi and thanks for your suggestions! I'm currently considering the [TI LMR16020](https://www.ti.com/product/LMR16020), which is in stock at TI and at LCSC. There is also a 3A version (LMR16030) available....

Good to know that you have 15s NMC packs. I wonder why they are 15s. Did you choose to put that many cells in series or did they come as...

That sounds like a very good idea. I could imagine the following different ports: ## Downstream (device side) - UART - CAN - SPI - I2C - LoRaWAN (mainly pub/sub,...

Probably a heartbeat once every second would be enough. The updated CAN interface does already have a similar method to detect a new device. It listens to received publication messages...