Patent ID: 7337343

Claim:
An arrangement including a program-controlled unit and a power chip connected to it, wherein the power chip being additionally connected to electric loads and driving these electric loads in accordance with timing input to it by means of load control data, the program-controlled unit configured to transmit to the power chip the abovementioned load control data and control data controlling the power chip, and the power chip configured to transmit to the program-controlled unit diagnostic data by means of which states prevailing in the power chip or events occurring are represented, and wherein the program-controlled unit, by transmitting corresponding control data to the power chip, can do at least one of the following: input to the power chip the format of the diagnostic data to be output, input to the power chip when it has to output what diagnostic data, input to the power chip which load is to be controlled, taking into consideration which load control data section, and input to the power chip whether the load control data contain redundant data suitable for detecting transmission errors, and what these redundant data are.