Method, real-time computation device, and initialization program for partial initialization of a computer program executable on the computation device

Abstract

A method for partial initialization of a real-time computation device that is connected via a communication system to further computation devices. Various functionalities are implemented in the computation device by executing a computer program in different fixed time interval patterns. Communication to the further computation devices is performed in a fixed communication pattern. Time interval patterns that are slower than the communication pattern can be influenced from the computer program via the communication pattern. To allow the computation device to be partially initialized despite a large inventory of functionalities, without impairing communication to the further computation devices, for initialization of a portion of the computer program, the computation device is transferred into a meta-state by the communication pattern being maintained, halting all time interval patterns being initialized that are slower than the communication pattern, in a sequence from the slowest to the fastest time interval pattern to be initialized, all the time interval patterns to be initialized are successively initialized, and after initialization of all the time interval patterns to be initialized, the communication pattern is switched into an initialized state without impairing communication to the further computation devices.