TI-OpenThread Stack User’s Guide

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Terms and Definitions

Terms and Acronyms

BIM
Boot Image Manager, the software bootloader
CCA
Clear Channel Assessment or Customer Configuration Area
CCFG
Customer Configuration Area, contains lock-bits on flash page 31 and the Customer Configuration Table (.ccfg)
CCS
Code Composer Studio
DHCPv6
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 Networks
FED
Full Thread Device acting as an End Device
FFD
Full Functionality Device
FTD
Full Thread Device
GCC
GNU Compiler Collection
IAR
IAR Systems
IEEE
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
MCU
Microcontroller Unit
MED
Mimimal Thread Device acting as an End Device
MTD
Minimal Thread Device
OAD
Over the Air Download
OOB
Out-Of-Box
PIB
Personal-Area-Network Information Bases
RCFG
TI-RTOS in ROM Configuration Table
REED
Router Eligible End Device
RFD
Reduced Functionality Device
ROM
Read-only Memory
RTOS
Real Time Operating System
SED
Sleepy End Device
SLAAC
Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
SNV
Simple Non-Volatile storage

General Terms and Acronyms

Customer Configuration
CCFG
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 CC26x2 Technical Reference Manual.
Code Composer Studio
CCS
An integrated development environment to develop applications for Texas Instruments embedded processors
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).
IAR
Refers to IAR Systems’ IAR Embedded Workbench, which is an integrated development environment used for building and debugging embedded applications.
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).
MCU
Microcontroller Unit
OAD
Over the Air Download
RTSC
Real Time Software Components. A toolset for creating reusable code, used by TI-RTOS.
ROM
Read-only Memory
Simple Network Processor
SNP
A BLE network processor implementation that supports the peripheral and broadcaster GAP Roles.
Application Processor
AP
The host MCU that implements the user application. Connected to a network processor via a serial interface such as NPI
Unified Network Processor Interface
UNPI
A standardized serial transport format that is implemented by TI for the purposes of interfacing to network processor devices like the SNP. UNPI also manages the handshaking required for the serial interface.
Real Time Software Components
RTSC
See RTSC and RTSC-Pedia.
Versatile Instruction Memory System
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 CC26x2 Technical Reference Manual.

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.

Sensor Controller Terms and Acronyms

SC
Sensor Controller
SCS
Sensor Controller Studio

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 determing 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.

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