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