MULTI-CORE REDUNDANT CONTROL COMPUTER SYSTEM, COMPUTER NETWORK FOR APPLICATIONS THAT ARE CRITICAL WITH REGARD TO SAFETY IN MOTOR VEHICLES, AND USE THEREOF

摘要

The invention relates to a multi-core redundant control computer system (5) comprising at least two control computers (1, 2) that, in addition to respectively having a computer core, are equipped with partially or completely redundant peripheral elements and with partially or completely redundant memory elements and are integrated on a shared chip carrier (28) or on a shared chip (7, 27). The at least two control computers (1, 2) are connected to at least one shared first arbitration unit (9) that monitors the control computers (1, 2) up to an error function. The invention also relates to a computer network (11) consisting of at least two computer blocks (32, 32') that communicate directly or indirectly with one another, whereby at least one computer block (32, 32') contains two control computers (1, 2) that, in addition to respectively having a computer core, are equipped with partially or completely redundant peripheral elements and with partially or completely redundant memory elements and are integrated on a shared chip carrier (28) or on a shared chip (7, 27). The invention additionally relates to the use of the computer network (11) in a vehicle control computer.