The input pins can be driven within the recommended operating conditions with or without the VCC, VM, or both power supplies present. No leakage current path will exist to the supply. Each input pin has a weak pulldown resistor (approximately 100 kΩ) to ground.

The VCC and VM supplies can be applied and removed in any order. When the VCC supply is removed, the device enters a low-power state and draws very little current from the VM supply. The VCC and VM pins can be connected together if the supply voltage is between 1.8 and 7 V.

The VM voltage supply does not have any undervoltage-lockout protection (UVLO) so as long as VCC > 1.8 V; the internal device logic remains active, which means that the VM pin voltage can drop to 0 V. However, the load cannot be sufficiently driven at low VM voltages.