8.4.3 Short-Circuit Protection

The high-side and low-side MOSFET switches are short-circuit protected with maximum switch current equal to I_LIMF. The current in the switches is monitored by current limit comparators. Once the current in the high-side MOSFET switch exceeds the threshold of its current limit comparator, it turns off and the low-side MOSFET switch is activated to ramp down the current in the inductor and high-side MOSFET switch. The high-side MOSFET switch can only turn on again once the current in the low-side MOSFET switch has decreased below the threshold of its current limit comparator.