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Chassis ID Path
300/Description, Design and Function//Vehicle Electronic System

Model Identity
VN 59914042

Publish date ID/Operation

2/21/2006

Vehicle Electronic System

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Volvo's vehicle electronics system allows products to be more easily adapted to suit customer needs, as well as meet
the demands of the future.

The vehicle electronics system provides:

Fast data link communications.

Fast and correct information concerning vehicle data.
Diagnostic capabilities for both the driver and the technician.

Vehicle electronics are based on the principle of data links. This creates the foundation for the system structure.
Because the system uses data links, it requires considerably fewer connectors, wires, and wire harnesses. This results
in a system with much greater reliability and flexibility.

The vehicle electronic system also offers increased diagnostic capabilities. This makes the work of fault tracing simpler,
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faster and more reliable.

The driver's need for good information has been provided for through increased functionality of the instrument cluster.
Important information from various electronic control units can now be read at the instrument cluster.

Strategy

The vehicle electronics system is designed to incorporate the entire vehicle system and instantly receive real-time data
from key vehicle components.

Uniform interfaces between the control systems.

Standard adaptations to the vehicle's functions.
Stand-alone diagnostics for the vehicle's main electronic components.

         

  Vehicle Production  

  Communication      
Equipment

  Transmission Owner  

  SRS      

  Brakes Driver  

  Engine      

  Instrument Cluster Body Builder  

         

  Expansion Service  
capability

         

Conventional Control Systems

In principle, a conventional control system is constructed so that one or several of the vehicle's components have their
own control units that receive signals from different sensors. Each control unit serves its own component and sends
signals to other control units via electrical wires.

An example of this is the engine control unit that receives signals from different sensors on the engine as well as from
other control units on the vehicle. The accelerator pedal position, the clutch pedal position, the speed signal, engaged
power take-off etc., are sent to the engine electronic control unit (EECU) via wires from different sensors and contacts.

The system must have one or more communication ports, to which tools can be connected for programming as well as
for reading information and any error codes.

In the future, the vehicle's sub-components will require several specific control units and the vehicle electronics will
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therefore become even more complex. In the long run this will limit the ability of conventional control systems to fulfill
their tasks.

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the Volvo Group
The information contained herein is current at the time of its original distribution, but is subject to change. The reader is advised that printed copies are uncontrolled.

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