Description
The Stellaris® LM3S8962 microcontroller is based on the ARM® Cortex-M3 controller core operating at up to 50 MHz, with 256 kB flash and 64 kB SRAM.The LM3S8962 also features real-time industrial connectivity, with a 10/100 Ethernet MAC/PHY, a CAN controller, an SSI / SPI controller, an I2C interface, and 2 UARTs, as well as hardware-assisted support for synchronized industrial networks utilizing the IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol (PTP).The LM3S8962 microcontroller also features advanced motion control features, including 6 motion-control PWM outputs with dead-band, two quadrature encoder inputs for precise position monitoring,and 1 fault protection inputs for low-latency shutdown.The microcontroller also features intelligent analog capability, including 1 analog comparators and 4 channels of highly accurate 10-bit analog-to-digital conversion – with the ability to sample at speeds of 500K samples per second.Finally, the LM3S8962 microcontroller provides a 24-bit systick timer, 4 32-bit or 8 16-bit general-purpose timers, a watchdog timer, a battery-backed hibernation module with RTC and 256 bytes of non-volatile state-saving memory, a low drop-out voltage regulator so that only one supply voltage is required, brown-out reset, power-on reset controller, and up to 42 GPIOs.
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
5-42 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 four analog input channels and a sample rate of 500 thousand samples/second
Two fully programmable 16C550-type UARTs with IrDA support
Synchronous Serial Interface (SSI), supporting operation for Freescale SPI, MICROWIRE, or Texas Instruments synchronous serial interfaces
Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C) Interface, providing Standard (100 Kbps) and Fast (400 Kbps) transmission and support for sending and receiving data as either a master or a slave
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, IEEE 1588 PTP hardware support, 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
Two Quadrature Encoder Interface (QEI) modules 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
