The Battery Charger Application Library easily allows adding battery charging functionality to portable applications. Since it is very compact (uses less than 2k words of program space and less than 128 bytes of RAM) it fits on small, cost-effective parts like the 14-pin PIC16F616. AN1384 Ni-MH Battery Charger Application Library The basic charger has a single power source in a buck Author: Mihnea Rosu-Hamzescu converter configuration with current feedback. To Microchip Technology Inc. charge both batteries, it switches between the batteries every second. When a battery is “active”, its voltage and current readings are updated, then the state INTRODUCTION machine uses th……