SLVSH22 May 2024 DRV8000-Q1
ADVANCE INFORMATION
The DRV8000-Q1 provides dedicated H-bridge gate driver disable function with the DRVOFF pin. The DRVOFF pin provides a direct hardware pin to shutdown the gate driver without relying on an SPI command or PWM input change. When DRVOFF is asserted, both gate driver half-bridges are Hi-Z by enabling the gate driver pull downs regardless of the other pin or SPI inputs. The integrated drivers and charge pump are independent from the DRVOFF pin.
The DRVOFF pin has a live status bit DRVOFF_STAT in regsiter GD_STAT that is continuously updated to reflect the status of the DRVOFF pin. This can be used to confirm that DRVOFF pin is either asserted or de-asserted.
While DRVOFF is asserted, SPI communication and logic inputs are still available as long as DVDD is present.