Electronic system

• US 6,832,142 B2
• Filed: 11/06/2002
• Issued: 12/14/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 01/12/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Volkswagen AG
• Original Assignee: Volkswagen AG
• Inventors: Busse, Gerald
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Thu V.
• Application Number:
  US10/181,094
• Publication Number:
  US 20030130776A1
• Time in Patent Office: 769 Days
• Field of Search: 701/36, 701/45, 701/49, 700/83, 710/100, 710/104, 710/105, 710/113, 710/240, 710/241, 345/700, 345/156
• US Class Current: 701/36
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/0315 using multiplexing techniques multiplexing for transmission of signals G08C15/00; multiplexing for electrical communication in general H04J
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units

Abstract

An electronic system includes a plurality of electronic components and a central control unit. The electronic components and the central control unit are connected to each other by a bus structure. The central control unit includes a memory. The electric and functional parameters of each electronic component are stored in the memory. Functions may be selected by the central control unit and according to the electric and functional parameters of all of the electronic components. The selection may be displayed for the user by a central graphic interface. The electronic components may be exclusively controlled by the central control unit.

Claims

1. An electronic system, comprising:

a plurality of electronic components;

a central control unit including a memory device configured to store electrical and functional parameters of each electronic component, the central control unit configured to generate a functional selection as a function of the electrical and functional parameters of all of the electronic components;

a central graphics interface configured to display the functional selection; and

a bus configuration, the electronic components and the central control unit interconnected by the bus configuration;

wherein the central control unit and each electrical component is assigned an abstraction level, in which the central control unit and the electrical components are mapped in a data format not specific to a device; and

wherein the central control unit is configured to assign a function of the functional selection to a command input via the central graphics interface, which is not specific to a device and to combine the electrical components necessary for the command, including control commands not specific to a device, the central control unit configured to convert the control commands to device-specific control commands and to transmit the control commands via the bus configuration to the specific electrical components.

2. The electronic system according to claim 1, wherein the central control unit includes a PC.

3. The electronic system according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the central control unit and the electronic components includes an initialization program configured one of to retrieve by the central control unit and to transmit to the central control unit the electrical and functional parameters of the electronic components prior to start-up.

4. The electronic system according to claim 1, wherein the bus configuration includes a MOST bus.

5. The electronic system according to claim 1, further comprising a gateway configured to communication with at least one of other networks and bus configurations, the bus configuration connected to the gateway.

6. The electronic system according to claim 1, wherein the electronic system includes at least one of an information and an entertainment system in a motor vehicle.