Patent ID: 8166344
Filing Date: 2012-04-24
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for controlling an electronic control unit by means of a manipulation unit, in which the electronic control unit includes at least one microcontroller, at least one memory with a plurality of memory cells and at least one first value in a first memory cell and at least one debug interface, and the debug interface exhibits a monitoring functionality for monitoring a program code executed by the electronic control unit, the method comprising detecting, by using the debug interface, a first pre-set timepoint when processing the program code, transmitting, by the debug interface, information comprising the first timepoint to the manipulation unit, generating a trigger timepoint for a processing routine, and writing, by the manipulation unit using the debug interface, a second value generated by using the processing routine at a second timepoint into the first memory cell of the first memory before the first memory cell of the first memory is read by the electronic control unit at a third timepoint.