Terms and Acronyms

General Terms and Acronyms

BDB
Base Device Behavior
CCA
Customer Confgiuration area, see CCFG
CCFG
Customer Configuration Area, contains lock-bits on flash page 31 and the Customer Configuration Table (.ccfg)
CCS
Code Composer Studio
IAR
IAR Systems
ICALL
Indirect Call
MCU
Microcontroller Unit
OAD
Over the Air Download
RCFG
TI-RTOS in ROM Configuration Table
RTOS
Real Time Operating System
RTSC
Real Time Software Componenets. A toolset for creating reusable code, used by TI-RTOS.
ROM
Read-only Memory
SC
Sensor Controller
SCS
Sensor Controller Studio
SNV
Simple Non-Volatile storage
cjtag
2-wire debug interface
jtag
4-wire debug 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 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