Fault-tolerant electronic battery sensing

A battery sensing system that acquires battery information of a battery string comprised of multiple battery cells connected in series, comprising:

• a plurality of sensing channels, each configured to acquire inter-terminal voltages of a set of the plurality of battery cells which are connected in series comprising at least a portion of the battery string, each sensing channel comprising:
• a voltage sensing front end circuit which is configured to selectively provide as an output a plurality of analog voltage measurements, each corresponding to a voltage output of an individual one of the plurality of battery cells in the set;
• main and redundant analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), each configured to receive the plurality of analog voltage measurements and generate a plurality of digital voltage measurements;
• a channel power management unit (CPMU) configured to regulate a power supply voltage applied to each of the voltage sensing front circuit, and the main and redundant ADCs;
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• a digital core including a control unit configured to monitor the plurality of digital voltage measurements from each of the sensing channels, and to determine based on said monitoring the occurrence of a sensing system fault in an identified faulty one of the plurality of sensing channels.