On-chip peripherals and memory sizing
Integrated peripherals include a brown-out detect and reset (BOR), power-on reset (POR), PWM timer, and watchdog timer — enough for a standalone sensor hub or a simple motor-control loop without external supervisor ICs. The 8 KB Flash is sized for moderate firmware: a bootloader, a Modbus or I²C stack, and a control loop fit within that boundary. The 256-byte RAM is tight — any significant data buffering or floating-point math will push you to the larger RAM variants in the MSP430F2xx family.
