Dana Limited

M450 Battery Management System (BMS) Applications

M450 Battery Management System (BMS) Applications

Summary

• The OpenECU™ M450 is a rapid control prototyping embedded controller for Battery Management System (BMS).
• Provides control of the battery pack contactors and monitoring of the pack voltages and current
• Supports isoSPI cell monitoring unit (CMU) slaves selected by customer to provide a complete battery management solution
• Supports customers to develop BMS application using OpenECU Simulink or C API
• Hardware comprises of low voltage section and high voltage section.

Performance

• A dual microcontroller architecture providing redundancy with a main controller for control and secondary microcontroller for safety monitoring of the operations
• Designed to measure voltages in excess of 50V up to 1000V
• Includes the LTC2949 High Voltage Pack Monitor providing 8 channels capable of measuring 1000V
• Two current shunt inputs to calculate charge, energy and power flow into and out of the pack

Capable

• OpenECU, Dana’s base software (BSW) provides developers with Simulink® or C API for application development
• High-quality rugged hardware design for Battery Electric Vehicles and Hybrid Electric Vehicles
• Supports common calibration tools such as ATI Vision, ETAS INCA, and Vector CANape via CCP as well as Dana calibration tool OpenECU Calibrator

Dana’s M450 Master Controller is a rapid control prototyping embedded controller for Battery Management Systems. M450 Master Controller adopts isoSPI for communication with cell monitoring slaves. M450 Master Controller combines low voltage and high voltage in a single ECU providing cost optimized solution for our customers.

Hardware Specifications