Patent ID: 6640259
Filing Date: 2003-10-28
Classification: F02D

Abstract:
A vehicle-mounted electronic control apparatus comprising:a main CPU including a first nonvolatile memory in which at least control programs and control constants, in correspondence with types of controlled vehicles, transmitted from an external tool are written, the main CPU including a first RAM for calculation processing; a sub CPU including a second nonvolatile memory in which programs for input/output processing are written and a second RAM for calculation processing; and a serial-parallel converter for serial communication adapted to transmit a plurality of input signals, which are input to the sub CPU, to the main CPU, wherein a plurality of filter constants corresponding to the plurality of input signals are stored in at least one of the first and second nonvolatile memory; and the sub CPU has a digital filter section adapted to perform predetermined calculation based on the filter constants to transmit a result of the calculation to the main CPU.