The Texas instruments USB to SMBus evaluation kit is a USB-based interface board for a PC used to evaluate battery fuel gauge circuits. The board enables an IBM-compatible or other types (with required driver for the particular platform) PC to communicate with Texas instruments SMBus, HDQ, or DQ interface gas gauges via a Universal Serial Bus (USB) port. In addition to this board, PC software is required to interpret the gas gauge data to complete the evaluation system. The kit comes with: EV2300 PCB module A standard USB cable, Battery management, Texas instruments
Features and Benefits
Provides an interface between intelligent battery circuit and a Windows-based PC Connects to the USB port of a PC Allows for on screen display and programming of gas gauge register functions when used with the appropriate PC software