Abstract: In order particularly easily and flexibly to configure a system including at least one module, a method has the following steps: creation of at least one implementation-independent configuration data file and/or modification of information stored in the at least one implementation-independent configuration data file; automatic setup and/or automatic update of configuration data, stored in a configuration data container, as a function of the information stored in the at least one implementation-independent configuration data file; automatic configuration of at least one module as a function of the stored in the configuration data container.

Abstract: An electronic control system for internal combustion engines which has signal generator circuits for the fuel metering and for the ignition. During starting, especially in the case of cold starting, three different phases are provided for controlling the injected fuel quantity and for regulating the fuel quantity downward; furthermore, the ignition angle is adjusted in accordance with temperature and rpm. In terms of the fuel metering, the boundary between the first and second phase is dependent on the rpm or on a maximum total number of revolution cycles, and the end of the second phase is predetermined by a minimum metering signal which is dependent on temperature. In the ignition system, there is an increasing adjustment toward "early" approximately in the rpm range between 200 and 600 revolutions per minute as well as an increasing adjustment toward "late" as the temperature increases.