LM3S8971

32-bit ARM® Cortex™-M3 50-MHz processor core with System Timer (SysTick), integrated Nested Vectored Interrupt Controller (NVIC), Memory Protection Unit (MPU), and Thumb-2 instruction set

Full-featured debug solution with debug access via JTAG and Serial Wire interfaces, and IEEE 1149.1-1990 compliant Test Access Port (TAP) controller

256 KB single-cycle flash and 64 KB single-cycle SRAM

Lower-power battery-backed Hibernation module with Real-Time Clock

4-38 GPIOs (depending on configuration) with programmable control for GPIO interrupts and pad configuration

ARM FiRM-compliant Watchdog Timer ; plus four General-Purpose Timer Modules (GPTM), each of which provides two 16-bit timers/counters and can be configured to operate independently

10-bit Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) with eight analog input channels and a sample rate of one million samples/second

Fully programmable 16C550-type UART with IrDA support

Synchronous Serial Interface (SSI), supporting operation for Freescale SPI, MICROWIRE, or Texas Instruments synchronous serial interfaces

Controller Area Network (CAN) Interface using CAN protocol version 2.0 part A/B and with bit rates up to 1 Mbps

Highly configurable 10/100 Ethernet Controller that conforms to the IEEE 802.3-2002 specification with full- and half-duplex modes for both 100 Mbps and 10 Mbps operation, and automatic MDI/MDI-X cross-over correction

One integrated analog comparator configurable for output to initiate an ADC sample sequence, drive an output pin or generate an interrupt

Three PWM generator blocks, each with one 16-bit counter, two PWM comparators, a PWM signal generator, a dead-band generator, and an interrupt/ADC-trigger selector

Quadrature Encoder Interface (QEI) featuring position integrator to track encoder position and velocity capture using built-in timer

Industrial and extended temperature RoHS-compliant 100-pin LQFP package and industrial-range RoHS-compliant 108-ball BGA package