In the datasheet for the L6362A, section 11.8 mentions putting an external diode on OUTH or OUTL to protect against an open wire on VCC or Gnd. Looking at the block diagram of the chip, I don't see what the purpose of those diodes is. What am I mis...

We ran a batch of boards with an STM32F401CE on them (this was not the first run of these boards or using this processor).After loading application code, about 10% of the boards became unresponsive. Looking into it we found in the option bytes on th...