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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2021
Filed:
May. 23, 2019
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Junghoon Kim, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Yuqing Tang, Northville, MI (US);
Bader M. Badreddine, Dearborn Heights, MI (US);
Matthew Allan Herrmann, Royal Oak, MI (US);
Ahmad Hazime, Dearborn Heights, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A vehicle includes a controller having a microcontroller and a monitoring processor. The controller includes a bus transceiver for communicating on an external communication bus. The controller is configured such that each of the microcontroller and the monitoring processor can output a transmit data signal to the bus transceiver. The source of the transmit data signal is selected as the output of the monitoring processor responsive to evaluating the microcontroller as being inoperative.