Serial interface set and peripheral mix
On-chip connectivity includes I²C, SPI, UART/USART, IrDA, and LINbus — enough to talk to most common sensors, displays, and LIN slave nodes without external glue logic. The peripheral set adds a brown-out detect/reset, PWM outputs, and a watchdog timer, covering the basic control and supervision needs of a small embedded system.
Memory sizing — what fits in 8 KB Flash and 512 B RAM
With 8 KB of Flash, the firmware budget is tight for a full RTOS or a large protocol stack; this part is aimed at bare-metal control loops, simple state machines, and sensor polling routines. The 512-byte RAM limits data buffering.
