I have a customer in Florida that designs tactical power systems. Virideon currently uses a BQ34z100 for gauging. Their current design is to build a “smart” cable and modular adapter that can authenticate a device that is some (customer has not defined a clear distance) from a controller that is generating the authentication code that will be transmitted to the requesting device. The engineer would like to know if there is a maximum transmit distance on the BQ26100 SDQ bus. The engineer says he has seen 1-wire to I2C extenders with a range of 100m. He would like to know if the SDQ bus has such a range or how it can be extended?
Please let me know if you have any questions or need anything clarified. Customers EAU for this “Smart Cable” design is 500-1000 with initial production starting in Q3 hopefully.
