Large amount of I/O pins. Plenty of Flash memory/ROM for code and data (up to 32 KB). Very low EMI. No known bugs. Many integrated peripherals (meant as single chip design). In-System Programming Free assembler toolchain. Commercial C compilers available. Free Multitasking OS and TCP/IP stack. It has a machine cycle of up to 2M cycles per second, but most versions seem to be overclockable to up to 2.8M cycles per second (28 MHz clock).

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