Delphi Technologies, Inc.

Brentt Curtus Duff

Frederick F Kuhlman

Daniel R Harshbarger

Michael J Pepples

Raymond B Anton

An electronic assembly includes a substrate and at least one surface mounted electronic component. The substrate includes a first side and a second side opposite the first side. The first side of the substrate includes a plurality of conductive traces formed thereon. The plurality of conductive traces includes a first conductive trace and a second conductive trace. The electronic component is electrically coupled between the first and second conductive traces. A component body of the electronic component is subject to interaction with a flux, which is utilized during electrical coupling of the electronic component to the first and second conductive traces, to form a current leakage path. The substrate is configured to prevent the formation of the current leakage path.

Electronic assembly with reduced leakage current

A method for incorporating a conditional reset vector into a microprocessor's boot system to scan memory for a reset vector locator for finding valid boot software throughout the microprocessor's memory space. The conditional reset vector method of the present invention contains conditional logic that determines where in memory the reset vector locator can be found.

Microprocessor conditional deterministic reset vector method

A method ( ) for reprogramming application software in a microcontroller ( ) without making the microcontroller vulnerable to failure. The method ( ) divides the application memory space ( ) into five distinct regions including a reset vector space ( ), a pre-boot software space ( ), and an application software space ( ) that is further divided into a main application boot space ( ) and a back-up application boot space ( ). In another embodiment of the present invention, the application software space ( ) is programmed to contain a reset vector jump table ( ). The back-up space ( ) is programmed ( ) to contain data necessary to reprogram the microcontroller until the main application space ( ) has been reprogrammed ( ) as desired. The back-up boot space ( ) cannot be erased until the main application space ( ) has been properly reprogrammed. Thereafter, the back-up boot space ( ) can be erased ( ) and reprogrammed as desired.

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