Method and device for testing a monitoring function of a bus system and a corresponding bus system

摘要

A method and device for checking a monitoring function of a bus system and a bus system having at least one user are described, first time slots being provided in which messages are transmitted and a communication cycle being formed from a number of first time slots in such a way that the messages are transmitted in first time slots, the number of first time slots and the particular position of a first time slot for the messages of the user being predetermined in the communication cycle, a second time slot, in which no messages may be transmitted, being provided after the communication cycle and the monitoring function being checked in this second time slot.