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Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2022

Filed:

Apr. 06, 2018
Applicant:

Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd., Hitachinaka, JP;

Inventors:

Teppei Hirotsu, Tokyo, JP;

Hiroshi Iwasawa, Tokyo, JP;

Atsushi Arata, Hitachinaka, JP;

Assignee:

HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD., Hitachinaka, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/00 (2006.01); G06F 1/12 (2006.01); B60W 50/06 (2006.01); G06F 1/04 (2006.01); G06F 1/3296 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/12 (2013.01); B60W 50/06 (2013.01); G06F 1/04 (2013.01); G06F 1/3296 (2013.01);
Abstract

There is provided a technology capable of synchronizing a plurality of timers with a simple circuit configuration in an electronic control unit that controls a vehicle. An electronic control unit according to the present invention concatenates a second timer value as the most significant bit of a first timer value reset by a synchronization signal, and counts up the second timer value by the synchronization signal.


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