8I20 9
OPERATION
STATUS REGISTER
The 8I20 maintains a status register that reflects various internal 8I20 conditions.
NAME
BIT
FUNCTION
ILIMITEDSTATUS
0
Indicates that MAXCURRENT is not
available due to 8I20 temperature/current
limiting.
BRAKESTATUS
1
Current brake on status
BRAKEWASONSTATUS 2
Brake has been applied status (sticky)
WDTO
4
DSP startup due to Hardware watchdog
timeout (sticky)
SWR
5
DSP startup due to software reset (sticky)
EXTR
6
DSP startup due to external reset (sticky)
Sticky status bits remember events until low side power is removed or the status
register is cleared.