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LM3S1538 Microcontroller

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The Stellaris® LM3S1538 microcontroller is based on the ARM® Cortex™-M3 controller core operating at 50 MHz, with 96 kB single-cycle flash, 64 kB single-cycle SRAM, a 24-bit Systick Timer, 4x 32-bit or 8x 16-bit general-purpose timers, a watchdog timer, two SSI / SPI controllers, two I2C interfaces, 3 UARTs, a 10-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with 8 input channels (+/- 1LSb of accuracy), a motion-control Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) module with - output channels, a Quadrature Encoder Input, a battery-backed hibernation module with RTC and 256 bytes of non-volatile state-saving memory, a low drop-out voltage regulator, brown-out reset, power-on reset controller, and up to 43 GPIOs.

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Documents and Software Downloads

Data Sheets

Doc number Description Date Download
DS-LM3S1538-3447Datasheet-LM3S153808/07/08download
ARM V7 Architecture Shortform Doc 03/30/06 download

App Notes

Doc number Description Date Download
AN01237-03Programming the On-Chip Flash Memory in a Stellaris Microcontroller06/23/08download
AN01239-01ADC Oversampling Techniques07/14/06download
AN01240-02Clocking options for Stellaris Family Microcontrollers06/24/08download
AN01241-01Using a Stellaris Microcontroller as an I/O Processor06/24/08download
AN01242-02Using the Stellaris Serial Flash Loader01/22/08download
AN01243-01Adding 32KB of Serial SRAM to a Stellaris Microcontroller06/24/08download
AN01247-01Using the Stellaris Microcontroller Analog-to-Digital Converter06/24/08download
AN01248-03Using the Stellaris Boot Loader01/22/08download
AN01249-01Upgrading to Luminary Micro's Stellaris Microcontrollers from Microchip's PIC Microcontrollers06/24/08download
AN01250-01Migrating to the New Members of the Stellaris® Family of Microcontrollers06/24/08download
AN01257-02Flash Protection for Stellaris® Microcontrollers06/24/08download
AN01265-01Optimizing Code Performance and Size for Stellaris Microcontrollers06/24/08download

Errata

Doc number Description Date Download
Errata_LM3S1538-1.5Stellaris LM3S1538 Rev A2 Errata09/22/08download

Software Downloads

Doc number Description Date Download
PDL-LM3S-uvision-3223DriverLib update for Keil uVision09/05/08download
PDL-LM3S-EXE-3223Stellaris Family Driver Library Installer09/05/08download
PDL-LM3S-UG-3223Stellaris Family Driver Library User's Guide09/05/08download
LMFlashProgrammer-3.5-572GUI and command line flash programmer08/08/08download
SW01242-497Source code for application note AN0124209/18/07download
SW01248-495Source code for application note AN0124809/18/07download

Product Change Notices (PCN)

Doc number Description Date Download
LMI-PCN-0800046_A_LM3S1538-00LM3S1538 board-level design change requirement for future compatibility.05/15/08download
LMI-PCN-70042_A_LM3S1538-00Introduction of ASAT, package marking change.12/21/07download

Available 3rd Party Products

Hardware Tools

Tool Type Company Product Name
Emulator Rowley Associates ARM USB CrossConnect
Emulator Keil, an ARM® Company ULINK2 USB-JTAG Adapter
Emulator IAR Systems J-Link™ USB-JTAG Debug Probe

Software Tools

Tool Type Company Product Name
SW Toolkit Keil, an ARM® Company RealView® MDK-ARM Microcontroller Development Kit
SW Toolkit CodeSourcery Sourcery G++ Open source software toolkit with GDB support over SWD
SW Toolkit ARM® RealView® Development Suite
RTOS FreeRTOS.org™ FreeRTOS™ is a portable, open source, small footprint real time kernel.
SW Toolkit Rowley Associates CrossWorks for ARM
RTOS Pumpkin, Inc. Salvo, the RTOS that runs in tiny places.™
SW Toolkit IAR Systems IAR Embedded Workbench™
SW Toolkit IAR Systems visualSTATE State machine design, test and verification tools
RTOS ThreadX® Express Logic's ThreadX is a small-footprint, fast, royalty-free real-time operating system (RTOS).
RTOS µC/OS-II Micriµm's µC/OS-II — The Real-Time Kernel. A highly portable, ROMable, very scalable, preemptive real-time, multitasking kernel (RTOS) for microprocessors and microcontrollers.
RTOS CMX CMX-RTX is a real-time multi-tasking operating system for microprocessors, microcomputers and DSPs.
CMX-TINY+'s footprint is made to fit within small amounts of onboard RAM – in the range of 512 bytes and up.
SW Toolkit code_red Red Suite is a complete software development platform for 32-bit microcontroller devices available to target Luminary Micro Stellaris® Cortex-M3 based microcontrollers. Features include MCU specific project wizards, a full embedded debugger, text indentation, function folding, online and offline integrated MCU help, extensive project management automation and integrated source repository support.

Ordering Part Numbers and Information

Ordering Information

Ordering Part Number Description
LM3S1538-EQC50 Stellaris® LM3S1538Microcontroller, 96K, 100-LQFP, -40° C to 105° C
LM3S1538-EQC50(T) Stellaris® LM3S1538Microcontroller, 96K, 100-LQFP, -40° C to 105° C, Tape & Reel
LM3S1538-IBZ50 Stellaris® LM3S1538Microcontroller, 96K, 108-BGA, -40° C to 85° C
LM3S1538-IBZ50(T) Stellaris® LM3S1538Microcontroller, 96K, 108-BGA, -40° C to 85° C, Tape & Reel
LM3S1538-IQC50 Stellaris® LM3S1538Microcontroller, 96K, 100-LQFP, -40° C to 85° C
LM3S1538-IQC50(T) Stellaris® LM3S1538Microcontroller, 96K, 100-LQFP, -40° C to 85° C, Tape & Reel

Product Features

32-Bit RISC Performance

  • 32-bit ARM® Cortex™-M3 v7M architecture optimized for small-footprint embedded applications
  • 50-MHz operation with 32-bit ARM® Cortex™-M3 architecture
  • System timer (SysTick) provides a simple, 24-bit clear-on-write, decrementing, wrap-on-zero counter with a flexible control mechanism
  • Thumb®-compatible Thumb-2-only instruction set, with hardware-division and single-cycle-multiplication
  • Integrated Nested Vectored Interrupt Controller (NVIC) provides deterministic interrupt handling
  • 32 interrupts with eight priority levels
  • Memory protection unit (MPU) provides a privileged mode for protected operating system functionality
  • Unaligned data access enables data to be efficiently packed into memory
  • Atomic bit manipulation (bit-banding) delivers maximum memory utilization and streamlined peripheral control
On-Chip Memory
  • 96 KB single-cycle flash
    • User-managed flash block protection on a 2-KB block basis
    • User-managed flash data programming
    • User-defined and managed flash-protection block
  • 64 KB single-cycle SRAM
Flexible Timer Capability
  • Four general-purpose timers, each configurable as one 32-bit or two 16-bit timers
  • Real-Time Clock (RTC) capability
  • 24-bit system (SysTick) timer
  • 32-bit watchdog timer
General-Purpose Timers
  • Four General-Purpose Timer Modules (GPTM), each of which provides two 16-bit timer/counters. Each GPTM can be configured to operate independently as timers or event counters (eight total): as a single 32-bit timer (four total), as one 32-bit Real-Time Clock (RTC) to event capture, for Pulse Width Modulation (PWM), or to trigger analog-to-digital conversions
  • 32-bit Timer modes
    • Programmable one-shot timer
    • Programmable periodic timer
    • Real-Time Clock when using an external 32.768-KHz clock as the input
    • User-enabled stalling in periodic and one-shot mode when the controller asserts the CPU Halt flag during debug
    • ADC event trigger
  • 16-bit Timer modes
    • General-purpose timer function with an 8-bit prescaler
    • Programmable one-shot timer
    • Programmable periodic timer
    • User-enabled stalling when the controller asserts CPU Halt flag during debug
    • ADC event trigger
  • 16-bit Input Capture modes
    • Input edge count capture
    • Input edge time capture
  • 16-bit PWM mode
    • Simple PWM mode with software-programmable output inversion of the PWM signal
Watchdog Timer
  • 32-bit down counter with a programmable load register
  • Separate watchdog clock with an enable
  • Programmable interrupt generation logic with interrupt masking
  • Lock register protection from runaway software
  • Reset generation logic with an enable/disable
  • User-enabled stalling when the controller asserts the CPU Halt flag during debug
Serial Interfaces
  • Two synchronous serial interfaces (SSI) with master and slave modes for SPI, MICROWIRE, or TI synchronous serial
  • Two I2C interfaces (master and slave)
  • Three fully programmable 16C550-type UARTs with IrDA support
Synchronous Serial Interface (SSI)
  • Two SSI modules, each with the following features:
  • Master or slave operation
  • Programmable clock bit rate and prescale
  • Separate transmit and receive FIFOs, 16 bits wide, 8 locations deep
  • Programmable interface operation for Freescale SPI, MICROWIRE, or Texas Instruments synchronous serial interfaces
  • Programmable data frame size from 4 to 16 bits
  • Internal loopback test mode for diagnostic/debug testing
UART
  • Three fully programmable 16C550-type UARTs with IrDA support
  • Separate 16x8 transmit (TX) and 16x12 receive (RX) FIFOs to reduce CPU interrupt service loading
  • Programmable baud-rate generator with fractional divider
  • Programmable FIFO length, including 1-byte deep operation providing conventional double-buffered interface
  • FIFO trigger levels of 1/8, 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, and 7/8
  • Standard asynchronous communication bits for start, stop, and parity
  • False-start-bit detection
  • Line-break generation and detection
Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC)
  • Single- and differential-input configurations
  • Eight 10-bit channels (inputs) when used as single-ended inputs
  • Sample rate of 500 thousand samples/second
  • Flexible, configurable analog-to-digital conversion
    • Four programmable sample conversion sequences from one to eight entries long, with corresponding conversion result FIFOs
    • Each sequence triggered by software or internal event (timers, or GPIO)
  • On-chip temperature sensor
Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C) Interface
  • Two I2C modules
  • Master and slave receive and transmit operation with transmission speed up to 100 Kbps in Standard mode and 400 Kbps in Fast mode
  • Interrupt generation
  • Master with arbitration and clock synchronization, multimaster support, and 7-bit addressing mode
Quadrature Encoder Inputs
  • Hardware position integrator tracks the encoder position
  • Velocity capture using built-in timer
  • Interrupt generation on index pulse, velocity-timer expiration, direction change, and quadrature error detection
GPIOs
  • 9-43 GPIOs, depending on configuration
  • 5-V-tolerant input/outputs
  • Programmable interrupt generation as either edge-triggered or level-sensitive
  • Fast toggle capable of a change every two clock cycles
  • Bit masking in both read and write operations through address lines
  • Can initiate an ADC sample sequence
  • Programmable drive strength and slew-rate control
  • Programmable control for GPIO pad configuration:
    • Weak pull-up or pull-down resistors
    • 2-mA, 4-mA, and 8-mA pad drive
    • Slew rate control for the 8-mA drive
    • Open drain enables
    • Digital input enables
Power
  • On-chip Low Drop-Out (LDO) voltage regulator, with programmable output user-adjustable from 2.25 V to 2.75 V
  • Battery-backed hibernation module with real-time clock and 256-bytes of non-volatile memory
  • 3.3-V supply brown-out detection
  • Hibernation module handles the power-up/down 3.3 V sequencing and control for the core digital logic and analog circuits
  • Low-power options on controller: Sleep and Deep-sleep modes
  • Low-power options for peripherals: software controls shutdown of individual peripherals
  • User-enabled LDO unregulated voltage detection and automatic reset
  • 3.3-V supply brown-out detection and reporting via interrupt or reset
Flexible Reset Sources
  • Power-on reset (POR)
  • Reset pin assertion
  • Brown-out (BOR) detector alerts to system power drops
  • Software reset
  • Watchdog timer reset
  • Internal low drop-out (LDO) regulator output goes unregulated
Additional Features
  • Six reset sources
  • Programmable clock source control
  • Clock gating to individual peripherals for power savings
  • IEEE 1149.1-1990 compliant Test Access Port (TAP) controller
  • Debug access via JTAG and Serial Wire interfaces
  • Full JTAG boundary scan
Package
  • 100-pin RoHS-compliant LQFP package
    • Industrial-range (-40°C to +85°C)
    • Extended-range (-40°C to +105°C)
  • 108-ball RoHS-compliant BGA package
    • Industrial-range (-40°C to +85°C)