We are designing a USB power pack to be charged from a standard USB charger.
My idea is to have a boost converter and the relevant USB port controller on the output of SYS (rather than PMID as is usually suggested). This is to allow a device to charge while the pack battery is charging (on the assumption that SYS has priority of power over the charge circuit)
My question is: Is it possible to disable to boost function of SYS so that the boost converter doesn't kick in when battery voltage drops below SYSmin? As mentioned, we plan to use a TPS61230DRCT 5V boost converter to supply the downstream USB port so it seems pointless to have two boost converters acting.
If this is possible, what will the behaviour of the BQ25890 be when VBUS is being supplied by a wall charger?
Kind regards,
Laurence