Terms and Acronyms¶
General Terms and Acronyms¶
- BDB
- Base Device Behavior
- CCA
- Customer Configuration area, see CCFG
- CCFG
- Customer Configuration Area, contains lock-bits on flash page 31 and the Customer Configuration Table (.ccfg)
- CCS
- Code Composer Studio
- CSMA-CA
- Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance
- CUI
- Common User Interface
- DMM
- Dynamic Multi-protocol Manager
- GCC
- GNU Compiler Collection
- GPD
- Green Power Device
- GPP
- Green Power Proxy
- GPRAM
- General purpose RAM. This memory area is used for the cache per default, but can be configured to be used as RAM.
- GPS
- Green Power Sink
- IAR
- IAR Systems
- ICALL
- Indirect Call
- IEEE 802.15.4
- The Institue of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 802.15.4 protocol specifies the physical and medium access layers for wireless Personal Area Networks targeted at low power, low data rate applications
- LQI
- Link Quality Indicator
- MCU
- Microcontroller Unit
- MT
- Monitor and Test
- OAD
- Over the Air Download
- OSAL
- Operating System Abstraction Layer
- OTA
- Over the Air
- OTA Client
- A device capable of downloading an image from an OTA Server using the OTA cluster
- OTA Server
- A device capable of hosting an image for download by an OTA Client using the OTA cluster
- PAN
- Personal Area Network
- RCFG
- TI-RTOS in ROM Configuration Table
- RTOS
- Real Time Operating System
- RTSC
- Real Time Software Components
- ROM
- Read-only Memory
- RSSI
- Received Signal Strength Indicator
- SC
- Sensor Controller
- SDK
- Software Development Kit
- SCS
- Sensor Controller Studio
- SNV
- Simple Non-Volatile storage
- SoC
- System on Chip - processor core and radio are integrated on same device
- 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 CC13x2 CC26x2 SimpleLink Wireless MCU Technical Reference Manual.
- ZC
- Zigbee Coordinator
- ZCL
- Zigbee Cluster Library
- ZED
- Zigbee End Device
- ZDO
- Zigbee Device Object
- ZR
- Zigbee Router
- ZNP
- Zigbee Network Processor
- cjtag
- 2-wire debug interface
- jtag
- 4-wire debug interface
- .bss
- Block started by symbol. This memory section usually contains uninitialized variables including the task stacks.
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 .
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.
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.