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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 1994
Filed:
Apr. 09, 1991
Danny R Taylor, Groton, NY (US);
Borg-Warner Automotive Inc., Sterling Heights, MI (US);
Abstract
A control architecture for controlling continuously variable transmissions includes two microcomputers. A first microcomputer receives certain input signals and performs certain tasks, and a second microcomputer receives other input signals and performs other tasks. A data bus is provided for communicatively interconnecting the microcomputers, and a transfer table associated with each microcomputer has a transmit section of pointers referencing memory locations containing data to be transferred and a receive section of pointers referencing memory locations to receive transferred data. Data is transferred between the microcomputers at regular intervals enabling real time output control signals to be generated.