System Management Bus (SMBus) Specification Version 2.0
SBS Implementers Forum 5
1. Introduction
1.1. Overview
The System Management Bus (SMBus) is a two-wire interface through which various system component
chips can communicate with each other and with the rest of the system. It is based on the principles of
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SMBus provides a control bus for system and power management related tasks. A system may use SMBus
to pass messages to and from devices instead of tripping individual control lines. Removing the individual
control lines reduces pin count. Accepting messages ensures future expandability.
With System Management Bus, a device can provide manufacturer information, tell the system what its
model/part number is, save its state for a suspend event, report different types of errors, accept control
parameters, and return its status.
1.2. Audience
The target audience for this document includes but is not limited to:
• System designers implementing the System Management Bus Specification in their systems
• VLSI engineers designing chips to connect to the System Management Bus
• Software engineers writing support code for System Management Bus chips
1.3. Scope
This document describes the electrical characteristics, network control conventions and communications
protocols used by SMBus devices. These can be thought as existing at the first three layers of the seven-
layer OSI network model, that is, the physical, data link and network layers. Functions normally
implemented at higher layers of the OSI model are beyond the scope of this document.
The original purpose of the SMBus was to define the communication link between an intelligent battery, a
charger for the battery and a microcontroller that communicates with the rest of the system. However,
SMBus can also be used to connect a wide variety of devices including power-related devices, system
sensors, inventory EEPROMs communications devices and more.
This version of the specification is a superset of previous versions, 1.0 and 1.1. All devices compliant with
these previous versions are compliant with this version. Those features new to SMBus with this version of
the spec are optional and are appropriate to the new environments enabled by those features. However, if
implemented, these new features must be implemented in a manner compliant with this specification.
1.4. Organization of this document
This document is organized to first give the reader an overview of the SMBus and then to delve deeper into
its actual working. The major technical discussion appears in three sections that treat the various aspects of
the SMBus as they would appear in the first three layers of the OSI reference network model, the physical
layer the data link layer and the network layer.
The section on the physical layer sets out SMBus electrical characteristics. The section on the data link
layer specifies bit transfers, byte data transfers, arbitration and clock signals. The section on the link layer
deals with the general usage model, the concept of addresses in SMBus, the Address Resolution Protocol
and the bus data transfer protocol. All aspects of the SMBus proper may be described within the scope of
the first three OSI layers.
The SMBus is a multiple attachment bus with no routing capability. Most communication occurs between
and involves only two nodes, a master and a slave. Exceptions to this rule occur during and apply to
devices that implement the Address Resolution Protocol as well as the Alert Response Address.
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