Terms and Acronyms

TI 15.4-Stack Terms and Acronyms

CCFG
Customer Configuration Area, contains lock-bits on flash page 31 and the Customer Configuration Table (.ccfg)
IDE
Integrated Development Environment
CCS
Code Composer Studio
GCC
GNU Compiler Collection
A compiler system produced by the GNU Project, which support various programming languages such as C and C++.
HIB
Halt In Boot. A mechanism in CC26xx and CC13xx devices to ensure that the external emulator can take control of the device before it executes any application code.
IAR
IAR Systems
MCU
Microcontroller Unit
OOB
Out-Of-Box
PIB
Personal-Area-Network Information Bases
RCFG
TI-RTOS in ROM Configuration Table
ROM
Read-only Memory
RAM
Random Access Memory
RF
Radio Frequency
NV
Non-Volatile Memory
DFE
Direct Frame Exchange
IEEE
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
PHY
Physical layer of the OSI model
OSI
Open Systems Interconnection model
MAC
Medium Access Control
SUN
Smart Utility Network
FAN
Field Area Network
PAN
Personal Area Network
CSMA/CA
Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance. This prevents nodes from talking while the air is occupied. Used in all bands except 868MHz
LBT
Listen Before Talk. This prevents nodes from talking while the air is occupied. Used in 868MHz band.
DH1CF
Direct Hash Channel Function. This is used to produce a psuedo-random channel sequence for frequency hopping devices.
SNV
Simple Non-Volatile storage
ICALL
Indirect Call
RTOS
Real Time Operating System
FFD
Full Functionality Device
RFD
Reduced Functionality Device
CLI
Command Line Interface
GUI
Graphical User Interface
VIMS
A system control module that handles access to the device memory areas from the CPU and system bus. You can read more in the CC13x0 CC26x0 SimpleLink Wireless MCU Technical Reference Manual.

Sensor Controller Terms and Acronyms

SC
Sensor Controller
A dedicated 16-bit CPU core on CC13xx and CC26xx devices, located in the auxiliary (AUX) power/clock domain. It can perform simple background tasks autonomously and independently of the System CPU and the MCU domain power states.
SCS
Sensor Controller Studio
A stand-alone IDE used to write, test and debug code for the Sensor Controller.

TI-RTOS Terms and Acronyms

HWI
Hardware Interrupts
A TI-RTOS hardware interrupt.
Idle Task
A TI-RTOS default task that is executes when no other higher priority thread needs to run.
RCFG
TI-RTOS in ROM configuration table.
ROV
Runtime Object View
A TI-RTOS kernel plugin for CCS and IAR to view a target’s instrumentation data.
RTC
Real-Time Clock
An accurate computer clock which keeps track of the current time.
RTOS
Real Time Operating System
An operating system intended to serve applications with real-time requirements.
SWI
Software Interrupts
A TI-RTOS software interrupt.
TI-RTOS
Texas Instruments Real Time Operating System
An RTOS developed by TI for TI microcontrollers.
Zero-Latency Interrupts
An interrupt that will not be routed through the TI-RTOS kernel’s Hwi dispatcher. For more information, see the Hwi module documentation in the TI-RTOS Kernel API Reference .

Over-the-Air Download (OAD) Terms and Acronyms

BIM
Boot Image Manager
A bootloader that runs after the device’s ROM startup code. The BIM is responsible for analyzing the image header of all images and determining the most suitable image to run. Once the BIM has found the proper image, it will jump to it’s program entry.
CRC
Cyclic Redundancy Check
An error-detecting code used to check the integrity of blocks of data.
ECDSA
Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm
A variant of the Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) which uses elliptic curve cryptography.
Factory Image
The factory image is a “golden” image that resides in external flash as a fail-safe mechanism.
HIB
Halt In Boot
A mechanism in CC26xx and CC13xx devices to ensure that the external emulator can take control of the device before it executes any application code.
OAD
Over-the-Air Download
The process of performing a device firmware update over the air.
OAD Target
The device whose firmware is being upgraded over the air. This is assumed to be a CC26xx or CC13xx device running the TI protocol-specific transport for OAD.
OAD Distributor
The device responsible for accepting an OAD enabled image from the compiler and transferring it over the air to the OAD Target.

General Terms and Acronyms

CCFG
Customer Configuration
Customer Configuration is set by the application and contains configuration parameters for the ROM boot code, device hardware, and device firmware. It contains lock-bits on the last page of flash. You can read more in the Customer Configuration section in the CC13x0 CC26x0 SimpleLink Wireless MCU Technical Reference Manual.
CCS
Code Composer Studio
An integrated development environment to develop applications for Texas Instruments embedded processors. Download: Code Composer Studio
cJTAG
Class 4 IEEE 1149.7: Standard for Reduced-pin and Enhanced-functionality Test Access Port and Boundary-scan Architecture. This is known by acronym cJTAG (compact JTAG).
GCC
GNU Compiler Collection
A compiler system produced by the GNU Project, which support various programming languages such as C and C++.
HIB
Halt In Boot
A mechanism in CC13xx and CC26xx devices to ensure that the external emulator can take control of the device before it executes any application code.
IAR
Refers to IAR Systems’ IAR Embedded Workbench, which is an integrated development environment used for building and debugging embedded applications.
JTAG
IEEE standard 1149.1: Standard Test Access Port and Boundary Scan Architecture Test Access Port (TAP). This standard is known by the acronym JTAG (Joint Test Action Group).
MCU
Microcontroller Unit
A small computer on a single integrated circuit.
OAD
Over the Air Download
The process of performing a device firmware update over the air.
ROM
Read-only Memory
Type of non-volatile memory used in computers. Once data is written to ROM, the data cannot be removed and can only be read.
RTSC
Real Time Software Components
A toolset for creating reusable code, used by TI-RTOS. See RTSC and RTSC-Pedia.
SysConfig
System Configuration Tool
SysConfig is a graphical interface for configuring software projects. Configuration files, C source files and header files are generated based on the parameters configured in the SysConfig dashboard. SysConfig is not supported for CC13x0.
TI-CGT
TI Code Generation Tools
Set of C/C++ Compilers and Assembly Language tools for many TI microcontrollers and processors. For more information, see TI Code Generation Tools.
VIMS
Versatile Instruction Memory System
A system control module that handles access to the device memory areas from the CPU and system bus. You can read more in the CC13x0 CC26x0 SimpleLink Wireless MCU Technical Reference Manual.