Patent 11390290 was granted and assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corporation on July, 2022 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The vehicle electronic control apparatus includes two or more FPGAs that each receive information from the sensor, a nonvolatile memory that holds a bit stream for determining a configuration for the FPGA, an MCU that incorporates two or more nonvolatile memories, in each of which a program code for calculating the control command is installed, and an error control module that outputs an error signal to the outside at a time when an abnormality occurs in at least one of the FPGA and the nonvolatile memory incorporated in the MCU; the nonvolatile memory that holds the bit stream and the nonvolatile memory incorporated in the MCU can be accessed from the outside.