BQ34z100

Hello

I'm a student of an university in austria and at the time I'm working on a diploma project with 4 other students. We're developing a mobile power station for notebooks. We use lithium ionen akkumulators. We want to use the BQ34z100 Fuel Gauge for a SOC indicator. 

Is a EVM2300 absolute neserssary to program the bq34z100? We  have a Mikrocontroller with a I²C Interface. Can we initialize the IC with the Mikrocontroller?

Thanks for your Help

Tobias