80 MHz Cortex-M3 with USB OTG and CAN — field-service note
The LM3S5651-IBZ80-C5: Texas Instruments Stellaris ARM Cortex-M3S 5000 series 32-bit microcontroller. Peripherals include USB OTG, CANbus, I2C, SPI, UART, and a 16-channel 10-bit ADC. 108-ball BGA (10x10 mm), -40°C to 85°C.
At 80 MHz, the Cortex-M3 executes single-cycle multiply and hardware divide, so a PID loop or Modbus packet handler can run without wait-state stalls from Flash prefetch. The 32 KB SRAM leaves room for a double-buffered USB frame or a CAN message queue alongside the stack.
Connectivity mix: USB OTG plus CAN
USB OTG means the MCU can act as either a device (sensor data logger) or a host (flash drive for firmware update) on the same port. CANbus connects directly to industrial actuator networks without an external transceiver — just a CAN PHY chip. The QEI and PWM peripherals let it drive a brushed DC motor or read an incremental encoder without bit-banging GPIO.
Texas Instruments has marked the LM3S5651-IBZ80-C5 as Obsolete. No last-time-buy window remains open through the factory. No direct pin-compatible second source is recorded in TI's official cross-reference for this Stellaris part.
