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20090077287 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR EXCHANGING DATA BETWEEN AT LEAST TWO STATIONS CONNECTED TO A BUS SYSTEM - A method and a device for exchanging data in messages between at least two stations connected by a bus system. The messages contain the data being transmitted by the stations over the bus system. Each message contains an identifier characterizing the data contained therein. Each station decides on the basis of the identifier whether to receive the message. The messages are controlled in time by a first station. The first station repeatedly transmits a reference message over the bus in at least one specifiable time interval. The time interval is subdivided into time windows of a specifiable length, the messages being transmitted in the time windows. | 03-19-2009 |
20100004841 | Method and Device for Monitoring a Functional Capacity of an Engine Controller of an Internal Combustion Engine - In a method for monitoring the functional capacity of an engine controller having a plurality of execution units, a comparison operating mode is provided, in which a torque monitoring program is executed on a plurality of execution units of the system, and signals outputted during the execution of the monitoring program by the execution units are compared with one another in order to recognize an error. | 01-07-2010 |
20100174448 | Method and device for operating a control unit - A control unit has two pairs of execution units, the two execution units of each pair redundantly processing the same program, and the output signals of each execution unit of one pair being compared to one another by a respective comparing unit, the respective comparing unit outputting an error signal when a difference in the output signals of the execution units of one pair occurs. A first pair of execution units are shut down when the error signal occurs for the first pair, and the control unit continues control operation using the second pair of execution units, and a pre-warning signal is output to the driver. | 07-08-2010 |
20100229046 | Bus Guardian of a User of a Communication System, and a User of a Communication System - A monitoring unit which is locally assigned to a bus controller of a user of a communication system, for monitoring and controlling the access to a data bus. Bus controller accesses data bus via a bus driver, and monitoring unit monitors and controls the access authorization of bus driver to data bus. In order to detect also permanent disturbances of bus controller and resulting errors of bus controller when accessing data bus monitoring unit has an arrangement for implementing a question-answer communication with bus controller and that it enables the bus controller to access data bus only if the question-answer communication establishes a proper functioning of bus controller. | 09-09-2010 |
20110251821 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TESTING A COMPUTER CORE IN A PROCESSOR HAVING AT LEAST TWO COMPUTER CORES - A method and a device for testing a computer core in a processor having at least two computer cores is described. The computer cores are connected to each other via an internal connecting system, both computer cores contributing toward the operating sequence of a machine. In the method for testing a computer core, with which a high error detection rate may be achieved in a minimum outlay of time, a test is run in one computer core, while a program for executing the driving operation of the motor vehicle is being processed in the other computer core at the same time. | 10-13-2011 |
20110264974 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM HAVING A PLURALITY OF NODES, AND A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM THEREFOR - In a method for operating a communication system having a plurality of nodes which have access to a shared channel, a transmission process for transmitting a message via the channel is monitored for bit errors, and when a bit error occurs, a signaling message is transmitted via the channel in order to signal the bit error. In order to allow communications processes between the nodes to be controlled as a function of a bit error rate of the channel, a signaling rate of the signaling messages is measured and a bit error rate of the channel is determined as a function of the signaling rate. | 10-27-2011 |
20120144140 | Memory Protection Unit and a Method for Controlling an Access to a Memory Device - A memory protection unit includes at least a first access control unit and a second access control unit programmed for controlling an access to a memory device. Further a method to operate a processing system comprising multiple processing devices and multiple memory protection units associated to the multiple processing devices, The access to the memory by a processing device is approved if first access control unit and second access control unit of the memory protection associated to the processing device approves the access and access is rejected if first access control unit or second access control unit rejects the access. The first access control unit is programmable by the associated processing device alone and the programming of the second access control unit is readable by an additional processing device which is to be used in a system with multiple programming devices, not the associate processing device. | 06-07-2012 |
20120246650 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION AND ACTIVITIES IN A CONTROL AND/OR REGULATING SYSTEM WITH THE AID OF A MULTI-CORE PROCESSOR - A method for processing information and activities in a control and/or regulating system in which the control and/or regulating tasks are performed by a microcontroller, the control/regulating system including different components and the microcontroller receiving information which is evaluated and processed thereby, and at least one output signal being output as the result of control/regulating calculations. In a method for processing information and activities in a control and/or regulating system which may be implemented cost-effectively and nevertheless permits high computing power, the control and regulating tasks of the system are divided into component-specific task complexes, a first component-specific task complex being processed by a first processor core of the microcontroller and a second component-specific task complex being processed by a second processor core of the microcontroller. | 09-27-2012 |
20120317576 | method for operating an arithmetic unit - A method for operating an arithmetic unit having at least two computation cores. One signature register which has multiple inputs is assigned in each case to at least two of the at least two computation cores. At least one task is executed by the at least two of the at least two computation cores, an algorithm is computed in each task, results computed by each computation core are written into the assigned signature register, and the results written into the signature registers are compared. | 12-13-2012 |
20130191701 | METHOD FOR MONITORING A DATA MEMORY - A method is described for monitoring a data memory in which an error detection method is used to detect and/or correct incorrect data words stored in memory lines of the data memory, an address of the data memory at which a data word evaluated as incorrect by the error detection method is stored being written to an auxiliary memory and being made available to a checking program. | 07-25-2013 |
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20150339133 | DEVICE FOR THE RELIABLE INTEGRATION OF A SOFTWARE COMPONENT INTO A MOTOR VEHICLE - A coupling device for coupling a software component, which transmits a setting command for setting an actuator on a control system of a motor vehicle, to the control system, the coupling device including a monitoring unit, which is designed to carry out an assessment for each setting command as to whether its implementation will transfer the motor vehicle into a dangerous state, the coupling device being further designed to transmit, as a function of this assessment, a monitored setting command corresponding to the setting command to an implementation unit, the implementation unit being designed to control the actuator. | 11-26-2015 |
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20100033230 | "OUTPUT STAGE HAVING ZENER VOLTAGE BALANCING" - An output stage, especially a switching output stage for switching inductive loads, having a plurality of individual output stages that are connected in parallel, which include degenerative transistors, in the degenerative path of which one respective Zener diode is present. The electric power during a switching-off process can be distributed in a particularly uniform manner to the individual output stages or transistors by disposing the Zener diodes near the associated transistors so that they are thermally coupled to the respectively associated transistor and their Zener voltage increases with increasing temperature. | 02-11-2010 |
20140184199 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CALIBRATING A SHUNT RESISTOR - A shunt resistor includes: two measuring terminals for applying a measuring current flowing through the shunt resistor along a main flow direction; slot structures dividing the shunt resistor along the main flow direction to include two side flow areas of respective first widths and a main flow area of a second width; and two calibration terminals connected to the side flow areas. A circuit connected to the measuring terminals is designed to detect, and generate a signal based on, a measuring current flowing through the shunt resistor. A calibration device connected to the calibration terminals is designed to apply a reference voltage or current to the calibration terminals, and ascertain a calibration voltage based on a falling voltage across those terminals. A correction circuit connected to the calibration device and the detection circuit is designed to correct the signal generated by the detection circuit based on the detected calibration voltage. | 07-03-2014 |
20150123675 | device for monitoring an operation of an inductive element - A device for monitoring an operation of an inductive element, includes a current-measuring device is switched in series with the inductive element. The device is configured to ascertain a first time-discrete and value-discrete signal, which characterizes a current flowing through the current-measuring device; to ascertain a second time-discrete and value-discrete signal, which characterizes a current flowing through the current-measuring device and has a predefinable time shift in relation to the first signal; and to infer the presence of a shunt from a comparison of the first signal with the second signal. Also described is a method for monitoring the operation of the inductive element. | 05-07-2015 |
20150207395 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE CURRENT INTENSITY OF THE ELECTRIC CURRENT FLOWING THROUGH AN INDUCTIVE CONSUMER AND A CORRESPONDING CIRCUIT CONFIGURATION - A method is provided for controlling the current intensity of the electric current flowing through an inductive consumer, the consumer being connected in series to a switching device and a current measuring unit, and in parallel to a free-wheeling element, and the switching device being activated for adjusting the current intensity during a pulse width modulation period. It is provided that a mean load voltage to be set during the pulse width modulation period is determined from an input current intensity with the aid of a first controller, the mean load voltage being set in the pulse width modulation period with the aid of the switching device at the consumer, the mean load voltage or a setpoint load voltage determined with the aid of a second controller from a predefined setpoint current intensity being fed to a model adapted to the consumer, and the input current intensity being ascertained from the difference between the predefined setpoint current intensity and a difference variable between an actual current intensity through the consumer and a model current intensity determined with the aid of the model. A circuit configuration for implementing the method is also provided. | 07-23-2015 |
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