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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2014
Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, IL (US);
William E. Hoban, Jr., Dunlap, IL (US);
Ioan Paduret, Peoria, IL (US);
James D. Siegle, Washington, IL (US);
Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, IL (US);
Abstract
An engine control module (ECM) having a plurality of driver banks is provided. Each of the driver banks is configured to drive a plurality of combustion control elements. The driver banks include two low side driver circuits and a high side driver circuit, the high side driver circuit in each of the plurality of driver banks being shared pairwise by two combustion control elements. Each one of said at least two low side driver circuits is respectively associated with the two combustion control elements. The ECM includes a field programmable gate array (FPGA) coupled to the plurality of driver banks and configured to provide firing signals to at least twelve high side driver circuits to simultaneously drive at least twelve combustion control elements respectively coupled to the at least twelve high side driver circuits.