Method and system for reprogramming

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10033546-B2
Application number	US-201313909689-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 4, 2013
Priority date	Dec 31, 2012
Publication date	Jul 24, 2018
Grant date	Jul 24, 2018

Abstract

The system for reprogramming a plurality of control units includes a first control unit and a second control unit connected by one CAN bus, and a diagnosing unit. The diagnosing unit includes a first controller configured to reprogram the first control unit and a second controller configured to reprogram the second control unit. The diagnosing unit is configured to perform bidirectional reprogramming for the first control unit and the second control unit while sharing information between the first controller and the second controller.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of reprogramming a plurality of control units using a diagnosing unit including a first controller and a second controller operating in a reprogramming mode, the method comprising:
receiving, by the diagnosing unit, information on a first control unit by operating the first controller in a first control transmission mode for the first control unit;
when the first control transmission mode is finished, transmitting, by the diagnosing unit, multi-reprogramming data to the first control unit on the basis of the information on the first control unit by operating the first controller in a first data transmission mode for the first control unit, and requesting and receiving, by the diagnosing unit, information on a second control unit by operating the second controller in a second control transmission mode for the second control unit, wherein the first data transmission mode and the second control transmission mode operate simultaneously;
when the first controller finishes the first data transmission mode for the first control unit, transmitting, by the diagnosing unit, multi-reprogramming data to the second control unit on the basis of the information on the second control unit by operating the second controller in a second data transmission mode for the second control unit; and
performing, by the diagnosing unit, bidirectional reprogramming for the first control unit and the second control unit connected by one Controller Area Network (CAN) bus,
wherein the information on the second control unit includes information for reprogramming of the second control unit,
wherein the second control transmission mode is operated in period with a data transmission rate which is lower than a data transmission rate for transferring the multi-reprogramming data, and
wherein the reprogramming mode includes a control transmission mode, a data transmission mode and a standby mode.

2. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
operating in the standby mode for the second control unit until the first controller finishes operating in the first data transmission mode for the first control unit, when the first controller is in operation in the first data transmission mode, even if the second controller finishes the second control transmission mode after the receiving of the information on the second control unit.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the receiving of the information on the first control unit includes:
transmitting, by the first controller, a first frame to the first control unit; and
receiving, by the first controller, a flow control frame from the first control unit in response to the transmitted first frame.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the receiving of the information on the second control unit includes:
transmitting, by the second controller, a first frame to the second control unit; and
receiving, by the second controller, a flow control frame from the second control unit in response to the first frame.

5. The method according to claim 3 , wherein:
the first frame includes information on reprogramming, and
the flow control frame includes information on at least one of a flow status, a block size, and the minimum separation time of the first control unit.

6. The method according to claim 4 , wherein:
the first frame includes information on reprogramming, and
the flow control frame includes information on at least one of a flow status, a block size, and the minimum separation time of the second control unit.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the transmitting of multi-reprogram data includes: consecutively transmitting consecutive frames that includes sequence numbers of divided reprogramming data and corresponding reprogramming data.

8. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving a flow control frame from the first control unit or the second control unit to transmit a next multi-frame, by the first controller or the second controller, after the transmitting of multi-reprogramming data.

9. A system for reprogramming a plurality of control units connected by one Controller Area Network (CAN) bus, comprising:
a first control unit and a second control unit connected by the one CAN bus; and
a diagnosing unit including a first controller configured to reprogram the first control unit and a second controller configured to reprogram the second control unit, in a reprogramming mode,
wherein the diagnosing unit is configured to perform bidirectional reprogramming for the first control unit and the second control unit by sharing an operating mode information of the first control unit and the second control unit between the first controller and the second controller,
wherein when the first control transmission mode is finished, the diagnosing unit transmits multi-reprogramming data to the first control unit on the basis of the information on the first control unit by operating the first controller in a first data transmission mode for the first control unit, and requests and receives information on the second control unit by operating the second controller in a second control transmission mode for the second control unit,
wherein the first data transmission mode and the second control transmission mode operate simultaneously,
wherein the second control transmission mode is operated in period with a data transmission rate which is lower than a data transmission rate for transferring the multi-reprogramming data, and
wherein the reprogramming mode includes a control transmission mode, a data transmission mode and a standby mode.

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lee So Jin
• Bae Hyun Cheol
• Cha Kang Ju
• Lee Chung Hi
• Kim Ji Hwon

Classifications

• H04L12/40013

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• H04L67/12

  specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks · CPC title

• H04L12/4013 Primary

  Management of data rate on the bus (systems modifying transmission characteristics according to link quality H04L1/0001) · CPC title

• H04L2012/40215

  Controller Area Network CAN · CPC title

• G05B2219/23295

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