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Is there one IC to solve the two problems: Lithium ion cell babysitting and generating from it stable DC power output?What I need is really small output power ( < 0.5 W ) and charging from standard 5V USB connector.
buy a cheap power bank and use the board from it.
Charging (start, stop), overcurrent protection, deep discharge protection and that's all. I don't need coulomb counting, capacity or wear level measurement and etc...
I don't think I have seen a chip that does charging and also monitoring. There is always a one-chip solution though - use a microcontroller.
In regards to the original poster, the bq2501x Series from TI has lithium ion charging and a built-in DC-DC buck converter. No protection from over discharge built in though.