"Smart Battery Workshop" is a package of utilities, which are useful in process of notebook battery repair. It uses Philips Standard I2C Parallel Port Adapter that can be assembled in one hour by person with no electronics skills and dose not require any hard-to-find components. Total components cost is around $1.

AccPlus is an utility designed to communicate with a Smart Battery or a serial memory device via the PC parallel port and a Philips Standard I2C Parallel Port Adapter. You can view the Smart Battery data and reset the EEPROM to its initial values. The I2C and Microwire protocols are implemented, so you can deal with many serial memories, both 8 and 16 bits, such as 24C01... 24C128, 9010...9040, 80AF, 93C56, 93C66, S29L220, S29L394 and 25C040.

This utility access almost all the computer hardware, including PCI (PCI Express), PCI Index/Data, Memory, Memory Index/Data, I/O Space, I/O Index/Data, Super I/O, Clock Generator, DIMM SPD, SMBus Device, CPU MSR Registers, ATA/ATAPI Identify Data, ACPI Tables Dump (include AML decode), Embedded Controller, USB Information, SMBIOS Structures and LPT Remote Access. And also a Command Window is provided to access hardware manually.