Patent ID: 7664595

Claim:
A system for controlling the operation of an electronic controlled internal combustion engine equipped with an Electronic Control Unit (ECU); a programmable motor control module having engine operating instructions resident in memory; said motor control module in electronic communication with various engine systems to actuate said systems in accordance with said engine operating instructions; said motor control module further in electronic communication with at least one sensor to receive data signals indicative of engine operation fault conditions; a Common Powertrain Controller in electronic communication with said motor control module; said Common Powertrain Controller having at least one monitoring unit in electronic communication with an engine system and a fault code module resident therein; said fault codes from said motor control module electronically communicated to said common Powertrain controller and stored in memory said fault code module as a static record of motor control module fault code data; said static record to provide data to update any replacement of said common Powertrain controller or said motor control module.