Obsolete — plan your BOM line accordingly
The LM3S5C31-IQC80-A2 is officially marked as obsolete.
80 MHz Cortex-M3 — what the speed rating means for the bus
The 80 MHz core clock on this ARM Cortex-M3 is the headline performance spec. At that speed, the 512 KB Flash needs at least one wait state inserted for zero-wait access — the flash controller handles this automatically. The 64K x 8 RAM is sized for moderate data buffers and stacks; if your application uses USB or CAN with large packet queues, budget the RAM footprint early.
Supply range is 3.0 V to 3.6 V — a single 3.3 V rail works, but watch the dropout on the regulator if you are running near the lower limit.
