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L6470 Functional description
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6.18 FLAG pin
By default, an internal open drain transistor pulls the FLAG pin to ground when at least one
of the following conditions occurs:
Power-up or standby/reset exit
Stall detection on A bridge
Stall detection on B bridge
Overcurrent detection
Thermal warning
Thermal shutdown
UVLO
Switch turn-on event
Wrong command
Non-performable command.
It is possible to mask one or more alarm conditions by programming the ALARM_EN
register (see Section 9.1.20, Table 21). If the corresponding bit of the ALARM_EN register is
low, the alarm condition is masked and it does not cause a FLAG pin transition; all other
actions imposed by alarm conditions are performed anyway. In the case of daisy chain
configuration, FLAG
pins of different ICs can be or-wired to save host controller GPIOs.