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
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
OAD
Over-the-Air Download
The process of performing a device firmware update over the air.
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
An operating system intended to serve applications with real-time requirements.
RTSC
Real Time Software Components
A toolset for creating reusable code, used by TI-RTOS. See RTSC and RTSC-Pedia.
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.
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-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 (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.