Applications Engineer

Analog Devices

Frank Zhang is an applications engineer working in Central Applications China at Analog Devices. His areas of expertise are battery management systems (BMS), precision signal chains, and embedded software development. He received his M.S.E.E. degree from Fuzhou University in 2022 and joined ADI in the same year.

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Analog & Power

Part 2: Discovering an Efficient Active Balancing Solution for BMS Design - Blog

October 06, 2025

Simplicity and efficiency are not always a difficult trade-off; excellent and successful designs often combine both. This article introduces several traditional active balancing solutions for battery management systems (BMS) and discusses how to leverage the strengths of these popular approaches to develop a more practical solution that better achieves simplicity and efficiency in design. Finally, it explains why pack-to-pack balancing is just as important as cell-to-cell balancing.

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A Deeper Look into Active Balancing on BMS - Part 1 - Blog

September 02, 2025

Simplicity and efficiency—even if not the shared pursuit of all designers—are the goals for most. Following the principle that simplicity wins, this article delves into and explores the design prototype of a simple yet efficient active balancing system for battery management systems (BMS).

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