Patent ID: 7542826
Filing Date: 2009-06-02
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A control apparatus for an automobile, comprising: a control unit which controls an electrical operation of a controlled electronic device in the automobile, wherein the control unit includes: a plurality of terminal pins used, either as input for obtaining exterior control information or as output for sending a control signal to the controlled electronic device; a ROM provided as a fixed storage section configured to store control software having a terminal pin variable, the control software performing signal input/output control in each of the terminal pins; a RAM provided as an execution area of the control software; a rearrangement table storage section configured to store a rearrangement table on a computer readable medium, the rearrangement table showing allocation information for each of the terminal pins; and a CPU configured to read out the allocation information for each of the terminal pins from the rearrangement table storage section and to substitute the allocation information for each of the terminal pins into the terminal pin variable of the control software at the RAM.