What the 50 MHz Cortex-M3 buys you in a 100-pin LQFP
The 100-LQFP package gives you 46 usable I/O lines and access to Ethernet MAC, two UART/USART channels, SPI/SSI, Microwire, and IrDA, all on one die.
Industrial temperature grade — the deployment envelope
The internal oscillator and brown-out reset peripherals reduce external component count in those noisy settings.
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