Terms and Acronyms¶
- BIM
- Boot Image Manager, the software bootloader
- IDE
- Integrated Development Environment
- RAM
- Random Access Memory
- RF
- Radio Frequency
- NV
- Non-Volatile Memory
- DFE
- Direct Frame Exchange
- IEEE
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- PHY
- Physical layer of the OSI model
- OSI
- Open Systems Interconnection model
- MAC
- Medium Access Control
- SUN
- Smart Utility Network
- PAN
- Personal Area Network
- CSMA/CA
- Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance. This prevents nodes from talking while the air is occupied. Used in all bands except 868MHz
- LBT
- Listen Before Talk. This prevents nodes from talking while the air is occupied. Used in 868MHz band.
- DH1CF
- Direct Hash Channel Function. This is used to produce a psuedo-random channel sequence for frequency hopping devices.
- 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
- OOB
- Out-Of-Box
- PIB
- Personal-Area-Network Information Bases
- RCFG
- TI-RTOS in ROM Configuration Table
- ROM
- Read-only Memory
- SNV
- Simple Non-Volatile storage
- ICALL
- Indirect Call
- RTOS
- Real Time Operating System
- FFD
- Full Functionality Device
- RFD
- Reduced Functionality Device
- CLI
- Command Line Interface
- GUI
- Graphical User Interface
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
- OAD Client
- The device whose firmware is being upgraded over the air. This is assumed to be a CC13xx device running the TI 15.4-Stack OAD service.
- OAD Server
- The device responsible for accepting an OAD enabled image from the compiler and transferring it over the air to the OAD Client.
Sensor Controller Terms and Acronyms¶
- SC
- Sensor Controller
- SCS
- Sensor Controller Studio