Method for the diagnosis of driver outputs and diagnosis pulse manager
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method for the diagnosis of driver outputs (20) and to a diagnosis pulse manager (10) that can supply a pulse to a driver output (20) in order to carry out a diagnosis of said driver output. As a plurality of diagnosis pulses may be required simultaneously for the system requirements (12), a diagnosis pulse requirement register (14) and a diagnosis pulse execution register (16) are provided such that a plurality of simultaneous requirements (12) can be stored. On the basis of the buffering of requirements (12), a plurality of stored pulse requirements can be successively taken into account according to pre-determined rules.
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36 Claims
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17. In a method of diagnosing a driver output, wherein a pulse is fed to the driver output for the purpose of reading out a diagnosis result at the driver output, the improvement which comprises:
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storing a requirement of a pulse existing for the driver output;
successively taking into account a plurality of stored requirements in accordance with predetermined rules. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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27. A diagnosis pulse manager for feeding pulses to driver outputs in dependence on system requirements, for the purpose of reading out diagnosis results at driver outputs, the pulse manager comprising:
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a diagnosis pulse requirement register for storing an existing requirement of a pulse for a driver output; and
wherein a plurality of stored requirements are able to be taken into account successively in accordance with predetermined rules. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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