Patent ID: 7478234

Claim:
Distributed control or monitoring arrangement comprising: devices in or belonging to control, monitoring and/or vehicle systems that comprise separate or locally deployed (distributed) module units (nodes) that carry out one or more functions, and one or more links connecting the units, the respective module unit being connected to the link in question via a connection arrangement or a connection point or requisite communication device for a CAN protocol, characterized in that the connection arrangement or connection point for a first module unit comprises one or more communication devices that are free-standing or integrated in a microprocessor chip comprising at least a microprocessor (CPU) which is arranged to carry out instructions synchronously with and interworking with both a state machine of a CAN control unit and a transceiver buffer, wherein each byte of the transceiver buffer is configured to be at least one of read and written by the CAN control unit and the microprocessor.