Program code generator and program

• US 20030110468A1
• Filed: 12/05/2002
• Published: 06/12/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 12/06/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Inventors: Maki, Yoshiyuki
• Granted Patent: US 7,269,820 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/106
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/30 Creation or generation of source code

Abstract

Variable information, which indicates whether a variable is a vehicle specific variable that is specific to vehicle control, is added in the form of variable name to the model. In a code generating tool, an extraction engine extracts the variable name from an intermediate file to obtain the variable information, and a code generation block generates vehicle specific program code corresponding to the vehicle specific variable using a variable generation rule stored in a rule storage.

Claims

1. A program code generator that is used to generate a control program, which is embedded in an electronic control unit to perform vehicle control, wherein the program code generator generates program code, which corresponds to a processing program that constitutes at least part of the control program, based on at least one program code generation rule when abstract language, which describes specifications of the processing program, is inputted to the program code generator, wherein the program code includes a plurality of program code segments, the program code generator comprising:

a variable information obtaining means for obtaining variable information, which indicates whether a variable contained in the abstract language is a vehicle specific variable that is specific to the vehicle control; and

a code generating means for generating at least one of the plurality of program code segments, wherein the code generating means generates a vehicle specific program code segment as one of the program code segments based on the variable information, which is obtained by the variable information obtaining means, through use of a corresponding one of the at least one generation rule, which corresponds to the vehicle specific variable when the variable contained in the abstract language is the vehicle specific variable.

2. A program code generator according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle specific variable is a variable, content of which needs to be retained even when the control program is not executed.

3. A program code generator according to claim 1, wherein:

the vehicle specific variable is one of a plurality of vehicle specific variables contained in the abstract language; and

the code generating means generates a program code segment as one of the program code segments for providing each memory area, which is assigned to a corresponding one of the vehicle specific variables for storing the corresponding vehicle specific variable, in a common specified memory area.

4. A program code generator according to claim 1, wherein the code generating means generates a program code segment as one of the program code segments for providing each memory area, which is assigned to the corresponding vehicle specific variable for storing the corresponding vehicle specific variable, wherein each memory area is provided along with a corresponding check data area, which stores check data of the corresponding vehicle specific variable, wherein the check data allows evaluation of validity of the corresponding vehicle specific variable.

5. A program code generator according to claim 1, wherein the code generating means generates a program code segment as one of the program code segments for checking validity of the corresponding vehicle specific variable.

6. A program code generator according to claim 1, wherein the code generating means generates a program code segment as one of the program code segments for restraining initialization of the corresponding vehicle specific variable.

7. A program code generator according to claim 6, wherein the code generating means generates a program code segment as one of the program code segments for substituting content of the corresponding vehicle specific variable with a default value when the corresponding vehicle specific variable is invalid.

8. A program code generator according to claim 1, wherein the code generating means generates a program code segment as one of the program code segments for calling a previously prepared library for at least one of a read process of the corresponding vehicle specific variable and a write process of the corresponding vehicle specific variable.

9. A program code generator according to claim 1, wherein the variable information is appended to the abstract language.

10. A program code generator according to claim 9, wherein the variable information is added to the abstract language in a form of a variable name of a predetermined type.

11. A program code generator according to claim 9, wherein the variable information is added to the abstract language in a form of a variable attribute of a predetermined type.

12. A program code generator according to claim 1, wherein the variable information is information provided separately from the abstract language.

13. A program code generator according to claim 1, wherein the code generating means generates a program code segment as one of the program code segments for defining the variable contained in the abstract language as an automatic variable when the variable contained in the abstract language is other than the vehicle specific variable.

14. A computer program for generating program code, which corresponds to a processing program that constitutes at least part of a control program embedded in an electronic control unit to perform vehicle control, based on at least one program code generation rule when abstract language, which describes specifications of the processing program, is inputted, wherein the program code includes a plurality of program code segments, the computer program comprising instructions for:

obtaining variable information, which indicates whether a variable contained in the abstract language is a vehicle specific variable that is specific to the vehicle control; and

generating a vehicle specific program code segment as one of the plurality of program code segments when the variable contained in the abstract language is the vehicle specific variable, wherein the vehicle specific code segment is generated based on the variable information through use of a corresponding one of the at least one generation rule, which corresponds to the vehicle specific variable.