TI suggests designers consider TM4C12x as an alternative family or series of devices for use.
The LM3S5T36 microcontroller is targeted for industrial applications, including test and measurement equipment, factory automation, home and commercial site monitoring and control, gaming equipment, motion control, medical instrumentation, lighting control, transportation, and fire and security.
32-bit ARM® Cortex™-M3 80-MHz processor core with System Timer (SysTick), integrated Nested Vectored Interrupt Controller (NVIC), Memory Protection Unit (MPU), System Control Block (SCB) and Thumb-2 instruction set
On-chip memory, featuring: 32 KB single-cycle Flash up to 50 MHz (a prefetch buffer improves performance above 50 MHz); 12 KB single-cycle SRAM; internal ROM loaded with StellarisWare® software
One Controller Area Network (CAN) module, using CAN protocol version 2.0 part A/B and with bit rates up to 1 Mbps
Universal Serial Bus (USB) controller with USB 2.0 full-speed (12 Mbps) and low-speed (1.5 Mbps) operation, 32 endpoints, and USB Device mode
Advanced serial integration, featuring: three UARTs with IrDA and ISO 7816 support; two Synchronous Serial Interface (SSI) modules, supporting operation for Freescale SPI, MICROWIRE, or Texas Instruments synchronous serial interfaces; two Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C) modules, providing Standard (100 Kbps) and Fast (400 Kbps) transmission and support for sending and receiving data as either a master or a slave
ARM PrimeCell® 32-channel configurable μDMA controller, providing a way to offload data transfer tasks from the Cortex™-M3 processor, allowing for more efficient use of the processor and the available bus bandwidth
Analog support, featuring: two 10-bit Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADC) with eight analog input channels and a sample rate of one million samples/second; two analog comparators; 16 digital comparators; on-chip voltage regulator
Advanced motion control, featuring: 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; four PWM fault inputs to promote low-latency shutdown; one Quadrature Encoder Interface (QEI) module, with position integrator to track encoder position and velocity capture using built-in timer
Two ARM FiRM-compliant watchdog timers; three 32-bit general-purpose timers (up to six 16-bit); six Capture Compare PWM (CCP) pins
Up to 33 GPIOs (depending on configuration), with programmable control for GPIO interrupts and pad configuration, and highly flexible pin muxing
Lower-power battery-backed Hibernation module with Real-Time Clock
Multiple clock sources for microcontroller system clock: Precision Oscillator (PIOSC), Main Oscillator (MOSC), 32.768-kHz external oscillator for the Hibernation Module, and Internal 30-kHz Oscillator
Full-featured debug solution with debug access via JTAG and Serial Wire interfaces, and IEEE 1149.1-1990 compliant Test Access Port (TAP) controller
Industrial-range (-40°C to 85°C) RoHS-compliant 64-pin LQFP package