Patent ID: 8170860

Claim:
A method of a control arrangement of a motor vehicle, the method comprising: executing, by a processor of a regulating device, a regulating program to control functions of the motor vehicle; during the execution and responsive to a trigger event, calling a regulating function modeled in an emulation computer; responsive to the calling, executing, by a processor of the emulation computer, the modeled regulating function; one of before and during the execution of the modeled regulating function, reading out data from a memory of the regulating device and transmitting the read data to the emulation computer; after the execution of the modeled regulating function: transmitting data from the emulation computer to the memory of the regulating device; and continuing, by the processor of the regulating device, the execution of the regulating program; and adjusting a protocol for the data transmission between the regulating device and the emulation computer, the adjustment (a) being dependent on the modeled regulating function being called, and (b) being performed using configuration data; wherein the configuration data is used for configuring software interfaces between the regulating device and the emulation computer.