Terms and acronyms

General Terms and Acronyms

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

RF Core Terms and Acronyms

CPE
Command and Packet Engine. The unit on the RF core that is responsible for command execution and packet encoding/decoding. It acts as a supervisor for all other sub-modules during command execution.
MCE
Modem Control Engine. A functional unit on the RF core that sits in between the CPE and the RFE. It is responsible for signal modulation/demodulation and binary base band processing.
RAT
Radio Timer. A functional unit on the RF core that provides accurate timing for command execution. It runs with 1/4 speed of the high- frequency oscillator.
RFE
Radio Front-end Engine. A functional unit on the RF core that is responsible for the analog signal processing part. It connects the MCE to the antenna.