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
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
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).
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).
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 Technical Reference Manual.

Dynamic Multi-protocol Manager Terms and Acronyms

Dynamic Multi-protocol Manager
DMM
An arbiter between multiple protocol stacks that are sharing the multi mode RF driver and thus the radio. The DMM aides in scheduling radio operations by way of application provided state information and timing constraints.

Sensor Controller Terms and Acronyms

SC
Sensor Controller
SCS
Sensor Controller Studio

TI-RTOS Terms and Acronyms

Hwi
A TI-RTOS Hardware interrupt.
Idle Task
A TI-RTOS default task that is executes when no other higher priority thread needs to run.
ROV
Runtime Object View
A TI-RTOS kernel plugin for CCS and IAR to view a target’s instrumentation data.
RTC
Real-time Clock
RTSC
Real Time Software Componenets. A toolset for creating reusable code, used by TI-RTOS.
Swi
A TI-RTOS Software interrupt.
TI-RTOS
Texas Instruments Real Time Operating System
Zero-Latency Interrupts
An interrupt that will not be routed through the TI-RTOS kernel’s Hwi dispatcher. For more information, see this wiki article.

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.
Factory Image
The factory image is a “golden” image that resides in external flash as a failsafe mechanism.
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 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.