A fully protected driver interface designed in 0.8-µm BCDMOS technology. It is especially suitable for truck or bus applications and the industrial 24-V supply. It controls up to 12 different loads via a 16-bit dataword. Each of the six high-side and six low-side drivers can drive currents up to 600mA. The drivers are freely configurable and can be controlled separately from a standard serial data interface to combine loads from bulbs, resistors, capacitors, and inductors. The IC easily builds H-bridges to drive DC motors in motion-control applications.