Peripheral Features:

• Timer/Counters, up to Three 16-Bit Timers:

- Can pair up to make one 32-bit timer

• Input Capture (up to two channels):

- Capture on up, down or both edges

- 16-bit capture input functions

- 4-deep FIFO on each capture

• Output Compare (up to two channels):

- Single or Dual 16-Bit Compare mode

- 16-Bit Glitchless PWM mode

• 4-Wire SPI:

- Framing supports I/O interface to simple codecs

- 1-deep FIFO Buffer.

- Supports 8-bit and 16-bit data

- Supports all serial clock formats and sampling modes

•I2C™:

- Supports Full Multi-Master Slave mode

- 7-bit and 10-bit addressing

- Bus collision detection and arbitration

- Integrated signal conditioning

- Slave address masking

•UART:

- Interrupt on address bit detect

- Interrupt on UART error

- Wake-up on Start bit from Sleep mode

- 4-character TX and RX FIFO buffers

- LIN bus support

-IrDA® encoding and decoding in hardware

- High-Speed Baud mode

- Hardware Flow Control with CTS and RTS