Patent ID: 7653476

Claim:
A method for operating an internal-combustion engine, comprising at least one actuator connected to a working device of the engine, an electronic circuit board comprising a programmable logic FPGA component, means for synchronizing the circuit board according to the engine cycle and a central processing unit, comprising: generating, through the component, a plurality of actuator control pulses, the pulses being parameterizable in phase and in duration, being independent, being linked with a single cylinder and being synchronized by an angular reference point in the engine cycle for each cylinder; determining the pulse parameters and assigning the parameters to the pulses by a computation program included in the central processing unit at each physical output; and controlling at least one of the actuators by a logic output signal of the circuit board corresponding to at least one of the control pulses; and wherein synchronization is obtained from at least one of the following sensors: for a 2-stroke engine: an angular coder and a 58× vehicle target; and for a 4-stroke engine: a camshaft sensor and at least: an angular coder and a 58× vehicle target.