Terms and Acronyms

General Terms and Acronyms

BIM
Boot Image Manager, the software bootloader
CCA
CCFG
Customer Configuration Area, contains lock-bits on flash page 31 and the Customer Configuration Table (.ccfg)
CCS
Code Composer Studio
IAR
IAR Systems
MCU
Microcontroller Unit
OAD
Over the Air Download
RCFG
TI-RTOS in ROM Configuration Table
ROM
Read-only Memory
SNV
Simple Non-Volatile storage

Bluetooth Low Energy Terms and Acronyms

BLE
Bluetooth Low Energy
CCCD
Client Characteristic Configuration Descriptor
L2CAP
Link Logical Control and Adaption Protocol
HCI
Host Control Interface
BR
Basic Rate
BR/EDR
Basic Rate/Enhanced Data Rate
LE
Low Energy
PHY
Physical Layer
GFSK
Gaussian Frequency-Shift Keying
ISM
Industrial, Scientific, and Medical
LL
Link Layer
GAP
Generic Access Protocol

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.
RTC
Real-time Clock
Swi
A TI-RTOS Software interrupt.
TI-RTOS
Texas Instruments Real Time Operating System
Zero-Latency Interrupts
An interrupt when genereated, 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
OAD
Over the Air Download
CCCD
Client Characteristic Configuration Descriptor
OAD Target

The device whose firmware is being upgraded over the air. This is assumed to be a CC26xx device running the TI OAD service.

OAD Target App also refers to the Image A project for on-chip OAD applications

OAD Downloader
The device responsible for accepting an OAD enabled image from the compiler and transferring it over the air to the OAD target.
SNV
Simple Non Volatile. An abstraction layer used by the BLE stack for reading and writing to non volatile memory. The GAPBondMgr layer of stack uses SNV to store keys. This region can also be used by the user.

Sensor Controller Terms and Acronyms

SC
Sensor Controller
SCS
Sensor Controller Studio