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Re: Jaguar "Whiplash"

In 2009, many Jags toasted the U6 gate driver chip from high-speed transitions from full-reverse to full-forward, usually resulting in a Jag that could no longer provide forward direction output.

If I'm understanding correctly, this problem has been subsequently fixed (1075 toasted 3-5 jags in 2009, 1 in 2010 IIRC) at the hardware level, but also, many teams have put in code restricting the maximum rate of change so that this doesnt happen.