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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2021
Eaton Intelligent Power Limited, Dublin, IE;
Horea-Stefan Culca, Lohmar, DE;
Olaf Boecker, Alfter, DE;
Eaton Intelligent Power Limited, Dublin, IE;
Abstract
A device, having a safe state, is coupleable to a communication bus. The device includes a first logic unit; a second logic unit; a monitoring circuit; a transmission unit; and a first test line. The device is adapted such that the first logic unit communicates with a bus via the transmission unit in a communication phase and the monitoring circuit emits a monitoring signal to the transmission unit upon a fault so that the transmission unit blocks the communication. The first and/or the second logic unit is coupled to the monitoring circuit via the first test line so as to emit a first test signal to the monitoring circuit.