High-Voltage ESS Reference

Development Platform
 Reliability, resilience and sustainability requirements drive the transformation in the power
and energy infrastructure towards battery energy storage. This in turn poses a greater need
for battery management systems (BMS). BMS is the first line of defense to monitor, balance
and optimize the battery health & performance in real-time, allowing improved power
system efficiency, lifetime and safety of battery applications.
NXP ESS is a production-grade battery management system reference development
platform. It is an IEC 61508 and IEC 60730 compliant architecture of up to 1500V intended for
a variety of high-voltage battery management solutions for utility, commercial & industrial
and residential energy storage. NXP ESS is a complete hardware, software and safety
package encompassing product safety life-cycle libraries and documentation considering
IEC 61508 and UL 9540.

Battery Management Cell Management Battery Junction BMS Safety

Unit (BMU) Unit (CMU) Box (BJB) Software Documentation

What’s Included? Application Areas

• BMU, CMU, BJB reference hardware printed circuit
boards (PCBs)
• PCB resources (schematic, layout, BOM, manual)
Hardware • PCB accessories (cabling, emulator, etc.) Energy Storage Industrial Equipment Renewable
Systems (i.e., Cranes, Forklifts, Energy
• BMS device driver package Excavators) Integration
• BMS safety library package
• S32K3 RTD/MCAL
Software • BMS advanced GUI

Grid Load Balancing Power Backup Residential

• Functional Safety documentation Applications / UPS Applications
• Product safety documentation
Documentation

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Benefits of NXP Platform in ESS Development Process
Regulatory / Technical Operational and Hardware System Development Compliance and
Specifications Design Considerations Design and Testing Certification

• Application specific • Scalability • System / board level • Communication • EMC testing

Standard applicability protocol
• Modularity • functionality • Documentation
ESS • Geographical • Safety
• Sensing and control • Cell control and
Development considerations management implementation
• External
Process • Electrical safety • Safety assessment
communication • Safety testing
• Functional Safety interface
• Eco-system
considerations

ESS Safety ESS ESS Reference ESS Reference Test &

Analysis Architecture Hardware Software Artefacts
All necessary Modular design with (BMU) Battery Production ready Safety Assessment
NXP ESS regulatory options to different Management Unit device drivers and & EMC Pre-test pass
Based considerations and requirements (BJB) Battery safety libraries results
Approach artifacts from system Junction Box
down to hardware
and software (CMU) Cell
Management Unit

Benefits Reduces development timelines by 4 to 5 months, cost savings of more than 1 year’s development efforts

One-Stop Solution for Production-grade High-voltage BMS Development

BMS Reference Hardware

CMU Type 1
#1
MC33774
R
Ba�ery Module

Hardware boards with Functional Safety pre-compliance analysis

Pressure
Sensor
MC33774 (54 Cells)
BMU
MC33774
Interlock
MCU
S32K358
RTC • Battery Management Unit (BMU)
CAN-FD
SBC Contactor
• Cell Management Unit (CMU)
FS26 Drivers CMU Type 1

RACK MODBUS
#n
MC33774
• Battery Junction Box (BJB)
MC33665

Interfaces:
TPL Ba�ery Module
Ethernet RS485 Pressure
Gateway Sensor
MC33774 (54 Cells)

MC33774
• MODBUS over RS485, Ethernet, CAN-FD
Pre-compliances:
BJB
• IEC 61508:2010-04, UL 9540:2020, UL 1973:2022, UL 991/1998, ISO 13849,
Isola�on CMU Type 2
Monitor #m
Pressure Ba�ery Module
MC33774

IEC 62933, IEC 62619, IEC 60730

MC33772 MC33772 Sensor (18 Cells)

Shunt Hall

BMS Reference Software Core 0 (LS Safety) Core 1: QM Core

Safety Applica�on
Diagnos�c
Isola�on QM
• Production-intent complex device drivers and MCAL software package
V-T-I Pressure HW func�on Contactors
Measurements Measurements diagnos�c
Monitoring
Control Applica�on
Measurements
Fault Handling

• Complete software package developed according to IEC 61508 SIL2 BCC IF BMS Safety Lib
Isola�on Monitoring

and IEC 60730

Contactors Drivers

OS

CAN FD Stack

TCP/IP Stack

BCC BCC BCC BCC

MODBUS

MODBUS
RS485

774 772
• Production-ready device firmware & safety libraries SBC RTC 772 774
SL SL IPC
DD DD

• Safety application for handling system safety limits violation TPL PHY Device Driver
(MC33665)
• GUI for display and system configuration
S32K3 SAF S32K3 RTD
• SIL qualified scheduler with time-slot monitoring running on safety core
• Lockstep MCU for Functional Safety S32K358

eInfochips BMS Development Services

• Hardware design, BoM optimization prototyping, firmware development
and testing
• IEC 61508 SIL2 safety design, assessment with complete safety
documentation
• Cloud enablement, web/mobile app development
• Regulatory compliances and certification support
• BMS algorithm optimization, porting and testing
• Test automation, cybersecurity assessment

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Technical Specifications
BMU Interfaces • 1x CAN FD interface & 4x TPL interfaces
• 1x RS-485 interface
• 1x gigabit Ethernet interface
• 2x contactor drivers with PWM economization and current monitoring
• 2x overcurrent and reverse polarity protected outputs for battery junction box and DC-Link bus
pre-charge contactor
Advance Features • PWM-based interlock pilot loop
• Lower current consumption in sleep mode
• Cell voltage and battery current measurement synchronization for state of health calculation
CMU Voltage Measurement • 3 x 18 channel BCCs for up to 54 cells, extendable by adding more CMUs to the daisy chain
• Life-time guaranteed high accuracy cell voltage measurement channels, with averaging and advanced
filtering
Temperature • 3 x 8 analog inputs (including temperature sensors) or GPIOs with advanced filtering
Measurement
Cell Balancing • Cell balancing with integrated temperature-controller function with up to 300mA (using default setup)
Pressure Sensing • On board pressure sensor for thermal runaway detection
Communication • Isolated ETPL communication between CMU and BMU
BJB Voltage Measurement • 6 high-voltage measurements with high accuracy
Current Measurement • Fully redundant current measurement up to +/-500 A
• 0.5% measurement error (IC level only)
Temperature • Shunt temperature measurement for current measurement compensation
Measurement • Pre-charge resistor temperature measurement

Isolation • Isolation resistance measurement between high-voltage and low voltage domains

Communication • Isolated ETPL communication between BJB and BMU

What’s included in the package?

Reference Designs and BMU, CMU, BJB (schematics, layout, BOM, gerber files and manual)
Software Software package - RTOS and application layer for both cores (safety core and QM core)
Software device drivers for all chips
Safety Libraries for all chips
SAF library (required for lock step boot up)
Software GUI for configuration and monitoring
Safety Documentation Complete safety documentation set along with all analysis up to pre-compliance level
Hardware and software design and testing documentation
Support 100 hours of support through private portal access

Ordering Information
RD-BESSK358BMU BMU
RDBESS774A3EVB CMU3 (CMU with 3 AFEs, this will be in the bundle)
RDBESS774A1EVB CMU1 (CMU with 1 AFE, this will be an option to add to the bundle)
RDBESS772BJBEVB BJB (including cables)
RD-BESS1500BUN Complete System

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