Method for controlling an operating mechanism and a manipulation unit

US8166344B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• dSPACE digital signal processing and control engineering GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Marc Dressler · Schlangen, DE
• Daniel Hofmann · Paderborn, DE
• Bastian Kellers · Paderborn, DE
• Thorsten Hufnagel · Paderborn, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 28, 2010
• Grant date: Apr 24, 2012
• Expiry date: May 8, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F11/3656
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method for controlling an operating mechanism using a manipulation unit, in which the operating mechanism includes at least one microcontroller, at least one memory with a plurality of memory cells and at least one first value in a first memory cell and at least one debug interface, and the debug interface exhibits a monitoring functionality for monitoring a program code executed by the operating mechanism and using the debug interface a first pre-set timepoint is detected when processing the program code and, using the information transmitted by the debug interface for the first timepoint to the manipulation unit, a trigger timepoint results for a processing routine through the manipulation unit (IN) and a second value is written using the debug interface by the manipulation unit using the processing routine for a second timepoint in the first memory cell before the first memory cell is read by the operating mechanism for a third timepoint.