8 m.a.r.s, M.a.r.s – Kontron COMe-cBTi6R User Manual

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COMe-cBTi6R / Features and Interfaces

4.8

M.A.R.S.

The Smart Battery implementation for Kontron Computer-on-Modules called

Mobile Application for Rechargeable Systems

is a BIOS extension for external Smart Battery Manager or Charger. It includes support for SMBus charger/selector (e.g.
Linear Technology LTC1760 Dual Smart Battery System Manager) and provides ACPI compatibility to report battery
information to the Operating System.

Reserved SM-Bus addresses for Smart Battery Solutions on the carrier:

8-bit Address

7-bit Address

Device

12h

0x09

SMART_CHARGER

14h

0x0A

SMART_SELECTOR

16h

0x0B

SMART_BATTERY

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