SLVSET1 August 2018 DRV8873
PRODUCTION DATA.
If the current in any FET exceeds the I(ocp) limits for longer than the t(OCP) time, all FETs in the half bridge are disabled and the nFAULT pin is driven low. The charge pump remains active during this condition. The overcurrent protection can operate in four different modes: latched shutdown, automatic retry, report only, and disabled. In the independent PWM mode (MODE = 10b or MODE pin to ground with a 200-kΩ ± 5% resistor) the fault handling is performed independently for each half-bridge based on the OCP mode selected. This protection scheme protects the outputs from shorts to battery and shorts to ground.