Control and diagnostics of power delivery system

A method of operating a power cell, comprising:

• delivering a gating signal packet to the power cell, wherein the delivered packet includes a plurality of bits that command operation of one or more devices within the cell, and wherein the packet includes one or more bits that contain a subset of a command to request a data point including stored data from a cell memory;
• receiving a gating signal packet from the power cell, wherein the received packet includes a plurality of bits that correspond to the status of one or more devices within the cell, and wherein the packet also includes one or more bits that contain a subset of stored data that was retrieved from the cell memory;
• repeating the receiving until a plurality of gating signal packets are received, wherein the plurality of received gating signal packets collectively contain the stored data;
• and
• assembling the subsets of the data point into the stored data.

A method of monitoring a power cell, comprising:

• delivering a gating signal packet to a power cell, wherein the delivered packet includes a plurality of bits that command operation of one or more devices within the cell, and wherein the packet includes one or more bits that contain a subset of a command to request a data point;
• repeating the delivering until a plurality of gating signal packets are delivered, wherein the plurality of gating signal packets collectively contain the command;
• assembling the subsets of the command into the command;
• receiving a gating signal packet from the power cell in response to the command, wherein the received packet includes a plurality of bits that correspond to the status of one or more devices within the cell, and wherein the packet also includes one or more bits that contain a subset of stored data that was retrieved from a cell memory;
• repeating the receiving until a plurality of gating signal packets are received, wherein the plurality of received gating signal packets collectively contain the stored data;
• and
• assembling the subsets of the stored data into the stored data.