Patent ID: 7228450

Claim:
A method for forming second clock pulses of a second clock cycle from first clock pulses of a specified first clock cycle in a bus system having at least one user, the method comprising: determining or specifying a first number of the first clock pulses of the first clock cycle in a specifiable time interval; determining or specifying a second number of the second clock pulses of the second clock cycle in the specifiable time interval; specifying an intermediate value of the number of clock pulses in the specifiable time interval; comparing the intermediate value to a value which is formed from the first number of the first clock pulse and the second number of the second clock pulses, the comparing yielding a truth value of true or false; and generating a clock pulse of the second clock cycle as a function of the truth value; wherein, besides the intermediate value, a scaled intermediate value is specified which is compared to a specifiable scaled value, and, by comparing to the scaled value an additional truth value of true or false is yielded, a clock pulse of a third clock cycle being generated from the clock pulse of the second clock cycle as a function of the additional truth value.