Daimlerchrysler Corporation

Madhu B Banerjee

Mary Joyce

John Smiley, Iii

Alan Richard Ward

William O Robinson

Michael D Hesse

Michael Ray Lindsay

Jesse Mitchell Saier

Maura P O'Kennedy

John R Dombrowski

Lawrence Cramer

David R DeRain

Bruce Dorow

An apparatus for determining the validity of a data signal communicated between two microprocessors by a dual port RAM includes a sender for providing a data signal and an initialization status indicator and a dual port RAM in communication with the sender for receiving the data signal and the initialization status indicator. The RAM has a first location for storing the data signal and a second location for storing the initialization status indicator. The sender performs initialization on the RAM at the beginning of a data transfer cycle which includes a plurality of data transfer from the sender to a receiver. The sender updates the initialization status indicator as the initialization progresses. The receiver reads the initialization status of the RAM from the second location and subsequently reads the data signal from the first location in association with the initialization status of the RAM.

Dual port RAM communication protocol

A computer-implemented software development system is provided for constructing applications that are embedded in a microcontroller of a motor vehicle. The development system includes a data dictionary which stores data type information for a plurality of vehicle parameters and is able to generate a parameter definition file having data type information for each vehicle parameter associated with a first application. A calibration repository is used to generate a calibratable file for the first application, where the calibratable file includes calibratable vehicle information and controller executable instructions for the first application. The parameter definition file and the calibratable file are then used by a calibration tool to calibrate the first application in relation to a particular motor vehicle.

Software development framework for constructing embedded vehicle controller software

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Madhu B Banerjee