Hi, I have DRV 8301 designed with circuitry same as given in reference design of its datasheet.
I have not connected 22 uH inductor to the circuitry as it was causing high current issue for microcontroller as %v from microcontroller was connected to Vcc end of inductor.
Rest of the circuitry is same except inductor is removed. The I applied PWM to all the 6 pins of DRV8301 then I observed that no PWM out at any GH_X and GL_X is working. While debugging I found that GVDD pin has 0V always. And nFault pin is low and OCTW is high.
And PWRGD is low, nFault pin is low and OCTW is high. This indicates that there is shutdown due to low voltage as GVDD low status indicates the same. Also no MOSFET related circuitry is connected to DRV8301.
Why is GVDD low all the time? I have just connected 2.2uF to GVDD to ground. Also IC gets heated ver quickly to temperature of 100 C. I don't understand why this is happening, Any ideas!!