Battery knowledge · Modules, packs and battery management
SMBus
The two-wire bus, derived from I²C, over which a laptop or tool battery reports its charge, health and limits to the host and charger. The Smart Battery Data specification defines the register set, so any compliant charger can read it.
- Also called
- System Management Bus, smart battery
Example
Modules, packs and battery management: an example situation
Twelve 3.6 V, 5 Ah cells in 6s2p give 21.6 V, 10 Ah and 216 Wh nominally before other restrictions.
Read SMBus alongside Battery management system in this context. The electronics and software that keep a battery inside its safe window: measuring every cell voltage and many temperatures, estimating SOC and SOH, balancing cells, computing current limits, controlling the contactors and reporting over the vehicle network.
Use in Lemonergy
Make series/parallel architecture explicit.
This is a reference concept. No executable Lemonergy block has been verified for this term.
References & further reading
Further reading on this topic
These sources provide broader context; they are not presented as citations for every statement in this entry.
- Extended Kalman filtering for battery management systems of LiPB-based HEV battery packs: Part 2. Modeling and identification
Gregory L. Plett · Journal of Power Sources · 2004
Topic background · Battery charge balance, open-circuit voltage, ohmic loss, polarization dynamics and model identification; parameters require cell-specific data.
- Getting Started with the BQ76925
Texas Instruments · 2019
Topic background · A concrete BMS analog front-end example: cell voltage, current, temperature measurement and MCU integration.