Bruce Loyd Dorow

US Patent:

6550052, Apr 15, 2003

Filed:

Nov 9, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/436853

Inventors:

Mary Joyce - Farmington Hills MI
Jesse Saier - Sterling Heights MI
John Smiley - Southfield MI
Bruce Dorow - Belleville MI
Lawrence Cramer - Troy MI
Madhu B. Banerjee - Bloomfield Hills MI
William O. Robinson - Detroit MI
Maura P. OKennedy - Royal Oak MI

Assignee:

DaimlerChrysler Corporation - Auburn Hills MI

International Classification:

G06F 944

US Classification:

717100, 717101, 700113, 701115

Abstract:

A computer-implemented software development system is provided for constructing applications that are embedded in a microcontroller of a motor vehicle. The development system includes a data dictionary which stores data type information for a plurality of vehicle parameters and is able to generate a parameter definition file having data type information for each vehicle parameter associated with a first application. A calibration repository is used to generate a calibratable file for the first application, where the calibratable file includes calibratable vehicle information and controller executable instructions for the first application. The parameter definition file and the calibratable file are then used by a calibration tool to calibrate the first application in relation to a particular motor vehicle.