Method for configuring a real or virtual electronic control unit
AssigneedSPACE digital signal processing and control engineering GmbH
InventorsSebastian Fischer, Markus Suevern, Thomas Gewering, Barbara Kempkes
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Abstract
A method for configuring a real or virtual electronic control unit, wherein a control unit software is executed on the control unit, and the control unit software comprises a basic software layer, the basic software layer is configured by a module configuration file by setting values of parameters, the scope of the configurable parameters being defined in a first module definition file which contains the identifiers of the configurable parameters. The first module definition file is replaced by a second module definition file, and a conversion of the first module configuration file into a second module configuration file takes place.
Claims10
A method for configuring a real or virtual electronic control unit, the method comprising:
- executing, by a processor, a control unit software on the real or virtual electronic control unit, the control unit software comprising a basic software layer,
- configuring, by the processor, the basic software layer via a first module configuration file by setting values of configurable parameters, a scope of the configurable parameters being defined in a first module definition file that contains identifiers of the configurable parameters;
- replacing, by the processor, the first module definition file by a second module definition file;
- automatically comparing, by the processor, the first module definition file with the second module definition file and determining, by the processor, identifiers of automatically convertible parameters and identifiers of non-automatically convertible parameters, wherein the automatically convertible parameters are those whose identifiers are contained in both the first and second module definition files, and the non-automatically convertible parameters are those whose identifiers are not contained in both the first and second module definition files;
- automatically generating, by the processor, a conversion program code, wherein, upon execution of the conversion program code, the automatically convertible parameters of the first module configuration file are copied into a second module configuration file;
- automatically generating, by the processor, template code in the conversion program code for the conversion of the non-automatically convertible parameters;
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- executing, by the processor, the conversion program code and generating the second module configuration file so that the first module configuration file is converted into the second module configuration file.
A device comprising:
- a processor;
- a real or virtual electronic control unit;
- a control unit software on the real or virtual electronic control unit, the control unit software comprising:
- a basic software layer;
- a first module configuration file for configuring the basic software layer;
- a first module definition file having automatically convertible parameters and non-automatically convertible parameters;
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- a conversion code configured to generate template code and convert the first module configuration file into a second module configuration file, wherein the processor is configured to:
- compare identifiers of the automatically convertible parameters and the non-automatically convertible parameters of the first module definition file with identifiers of automatically convertible parameters and non-automatically convertible parameters of a second module definition file;
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- execute the conversion code to convert the first module configuration file into the second module configuration file having the automatically convertible parameters of the first module definition file and the template code generated by the conversion code.
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