Terms and Acronyms¶
General Terms and Acronyms¶
- BDB¶
Base Device Behavior
- CCA¶
- CCFG¶
- Customer Configuration Area¶
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 CC13x2 CC26x2 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¶
- compact JTAG¶
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.
- CSMA-CA¶
Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance
- CUI¶
Common User Interface
- DMM¶
- Dynamic Multi-protocol Manager¶
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.
- GCC¶
- GNU Compiler Collection¶
A compiler system produced by the GNU Project, which support various programming languages such as C and C++.
- 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¶
Refers to IAR Systems’ IAR Embedded Workbench, which is an integrated development environment used for building and debugging embedded applications.
- 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
- JTAG¶
- Joint Test Action Group¶
IEEE standard 1149.1: Standard Test Access Port and Boundary Scan Architecture Test Access Port (TAP). This standard is known by the acronym JTAG.
- LQI¶
- Link Quality Indicator¶
A measurement of the quality of a received packet. LQI measurements are performed on by the RF core by measuring the signal to noise ratio (SNR) of the desired signal to the in-band noise.
- MCU¶
- Microcontroller Unit¶
A small computer on a single integrated circuit.
- MT¶
Monitor and Test
- 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
- 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.
- RSSI¶
- Received Signal Strength Indicator¶
It is a measurement of the power present in a received radio signal.
- RTSC¶
- Real Time Software Components¶
A toolset for creating reusable code, used by TI-RTOS. See RTSC and RTSC-Pedia.
- SDK¶
Software Development Kit
- SNV¶
- Simple Non-Volatile storage¶
An abstraction layer used by the Z-Stack for reading and writing to non volatile memory. This region can also be used by the user.
- 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
- .bss¶
Block started by symbol. This memory section usually contains uninitialized variables including the task stacks.
TI-RTOS7 Terms and Acronyms¶
- HWI¶
- Hardware Interrupts¶
A TI-RTOS7 hardware interrupt.
- Idle Task¶
A TI-RTOS7 default task that is executes when no other higher priority thread needs to run.
- ROV¶
- Runtime Object View¶
A TI-RTOS7 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-RTOS7 software interrupt.
- TI-RTOS7¶
- 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-RTOS7 Kernel (SYS/BIOS) User’s Guide.
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 CC13xx or CC26xx 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.