Hello, I am planning to develop a system-side battery Gauging system for an already-running project with a uC T4M123g. It is actually being powered externally. Now I was selected to do the development of a charging and fuel gauging system for a pack of Li-Ion 5200mAh batteries. I have big concerns with the package of the ICs because I can't really solve the soldering of the BGA products (i.e. bq27520-g4) nor in testing phase nor in production phase. So I decided to look at the 14TSSOP bq34z100-g1 with quite a lot of interest.
Now, my problem is, I've seen that there is an evaluation module (bq34z100EVM) to buy from TI. I have the Launchpad EK-TM4C123GXL evaluation kit to work with. What I'm wondering is if I will be able to use the BQStudio software without the EV2300 module, I mean, connecting the bq34z100EVM directly to the I2C ports of the EK-TM4C123GXL kit and from there to the USB Host PC Port, or is it mandatory to channel the communication through the EV2300 module?
Is this solution possible? Thank you very much.. I am quite lost with this new project because I have no experience in embedded systems like this.