Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Keihin Corporation

Yuichi Kobata

Shinichi Daibo

Taku Yoshikawa

Takeshi Yamada

Daisuke Hoshi

The present invention provides an electronic control device including a processing unit having a function of shifting to a sleep mode in which the processing unit is adapted to start up from the sleep mode according to occurrence statuses of one or more startup factors, and shift to the sleep mode according to a system power supply voltage.

Electronic control device and vehicle control system

An electronic control device includes: a processing unit that performs a predetermined process in accordance with a program; a watchdog timer that includes a time counter reset by a pulse signal output at a given period from the processing unit and outputs a signal having levels inverted depending on whether an overflow occurs; and a latch circuit that latches the signal output from the watchdog timer and outputs a signal obtained through the latching as a first output enable signal. The processing unit stops the output of the pulse signal, when diagnosing a malfunction of the watchdog timer, and diagnoses the malfunction of the watchdog timer based on the first output enable signal output from the latch circuit, after stopping the output of the pulse signal.

Electronic control device with watchdog timer and processing unit to diagnose malfunction of watchdog timer

The present invention provides an electronic control device including: a processing unit having a function of transition to a sleep mode; and a watch dog timer having a time counter that resets in response to a pulse signal outputted from the processing unit at certain intervals, this watch dog timer outputting a signal having a level inverted according to the existence or absence of overflow occurrence, in which the electronic control device further includes a latch circuit that latches the signal outputted from the watch dog timer and outputs a signal obtained through the latching as a first output enable signal, and the processing unit stops outputting the pulse signal before transition to the sleep mode, and carries out failure diagnosis of the watch dog timer based on the first output enable signal outputted from the latch circuit after output of the pulse signal is stopped.

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Utsunomiya, Japan

Yuichi Kobata