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DRV8353: DRV8353S short-circuit protection damage

Part Number: DRV8353

Hi team,

Issue: the device(DRV8353S) is damaged after a phase-to-phase short of the driver. It's found damage to one phase lower bridge short detection circuit, and the nFAULT signal is reported to be low as long as current passes through the lower bridge.

What could cause damage to the circuit for short-circuit detection? Are some parameters of the short circuit detection circuit exceeded?

Could you help check this case? Thanks.

Best Regards,

Cherry

  • Hey Cherry,

    I will consult the team and aim to provide feedback by Wednesday of next week.

    Best Regards,

    Akshay

  • Hey Cherry,

     

    I would like to ask some preliminary questions to better understand the situation:

    • What I drive setting are you using?
    • What dead time is being used?
    • What is the standard motor current and motor voltage?
    • What specific pin has failed?

    I can use this information when I discuss the issue with the team.

     

    Best Regards,

    Akshay

  • Akshay,  thanks!

    • What I drive setting are you using?

    ---see below photo.

    • What dead time is being used?

    ---The dead time is 400ns

    • What is the standard motor current and motor voltage?

    ---motor voltage 48V/20A

    • What specific pin has failed?

    ---The lower bridge short circuit detection circuit with one phase is damaged, There's only current going through.

        Some are three-phase current no output, VGL pin output voltage error, VCP pin output voltage error.

  • Hey Reed,

    Thank you for the information. I will consult the team and aim to provide feedback by early next week.

    Best regards,

    Akshay

  • Hey Reed,

     

    In order to debug the issue, I would like to ask for the following information:

    1. Would you be able to provide the schematic and layout of the board?
    2. What is the impedance between 1) VGLS and GND 2) VCP and GND?
    3. By VGL do you mean VGLS or GLx?
    4. Just to clarify, are you seeing damage at VGLS and VCP? What did you mean by output voltage error?
    5. Is there a short between SHx and SPx?

    Answer to these questions would be helpful in debugging this issue.

     

    Best Regards,

    Akshay

  • Hi Akshay,

    1. It's the voltage of the VGLS
    2. There is no damage on VGLS and VCP surfaces
    3,.the bootstrap voltage output voltage is not right, the feeling may be the bootstrap circuit is broken, it is possible that other circuits are broken, indirectly leading to the bootstrap circuit has a problem, at present can be clear: there is a phase of the bridge short circuit detection circuit damaged
    4. There should be no short line between SPX and SHX, because they go to different layers
    5. The picture is part of the schematic diagram and PCB diagram (our power circuit and DRV driver circuit are not on the same board, but two boards are stacked together and connected through the row needle)

  • Hey Reed,

    Thank you for answering the questions. I will contact my team and aim to provide feedback by early next week.

    Regards,

    Akshay

  • Hey Reed,

     

    DRV8353S does not work on a bootstrap architecture; it uses a charge pump.

    What all faults are being shown on SPI?

    Would you be able to measure the impedance to ground on the pins that have the issue?

     

    Best Regards,

    Akshay