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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2016
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Michael Fischer, Munich, DE;
Hans-Joerg Voegel, Groebenzell, DE;
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A method is provided for programming a plurality control units of a vehicle via bus, wherein the control units are each put into a persistent bus idle mode, in which mode the control units each send messages on the bus only when the messages are requested from outside of the particular control unit. While the control units are in the persistent bus idle mode, new firmware is written to the control units in a writing process of the particular control unit. At least a subset of the control units is written to such that the particular writing processes of the subset of the control units overlap in time.