What this 8-bit MCU brings to a control board
The 52 general-purpose I/O lines and 16-channel 10-bit ADC give it the pin count to interface with a keypad, a small TFT, and a handful of analog inputs without external muxing.
24 MHz — what it buys you on an 8-bit bus
At 24 MHz the STM8 core executes most instructions in one or two clock cycles. The 16-channel 10-bit ADC can run conversion sequences without a DMA engine.
