Charging technology is becoming more and more important since rechargeable batteries are commonly used in many applications than ever before. To facilitate various charging profiles, a battery charger with multi-mode is proposed. The charger is composed of an innovative reflex charging circuit and a controllable half-bridge converter with pulse-width-modulation. This multi-mode charger provides not only four basic functions of constant voltage (CV), constant current (CC), pulsed current (PS) and reflex charging (RX), but also the multi-stage charging with hybrid charging modes. The desired charging profile can easily be accomplished by adjusting the controllable parameters of the charger. In order to simplify the control circuit, a digital signal processor (DSP) with the associated sensors and interface circuits are used as the control kernel. By continuously monitoring the charging current and battery voltage, the charging modes can be adapted to the charging strategy. An experimental charging circuit is built and tested. The experiments in this dissertation are carried out on lead-acid batteries, Experimental results show that the charger is able to execute the charging functions of various tentative charging strategies with hybrid charging modes.