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
- SNP
- Simple Network Processor, a BLE network processor implementation that supports the peripheral and broadcaster GAP Roles.
- AP
- Application Processor, the host MCU that implements the user application. Connected to a network processor via a serial interface such as NPI
- UNPI
- Unified Network Processor Interface, 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.
- 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).
- 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).
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
- Hardware Interrupts
- A TI-RTOS hardware interrupt.
- Idle Task
- A TI-RTOS default task that is executes when no other higher priority thread needs to run.
- RCFG
- TI-RTOS in ROM configuration table.
- ROV
- Runtime Object View
- A TI-RTOS kernel plugin for CCS and IAR to view a target’s instrumentation data.
- RTC
- Real-Time Clock
- An accurate computer clock which keeps track of the current time.
- RTOS
- Real Time Operating System
- An operating system intended to serve applications with real-time requirements.
- SWI
- Software Interrupts
- A TI-RTOS software interrupt.
- TI-RTOS
- Texas Instruments Real Time Operating System
- An RTOS developed by TI for TI microcontrollers.
- Zero-Latency Interrupts
- An interrupt that will not be routed through the TI-RTOS kernel’s Hwi dispatcher. For more information, see the Hwi module documentation in the TI-RTOS Kernel API Reference .
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
- A dedicated 16-bit CPU core on CC13xx and CC26xx devices, located in the auxiliary (AUX) power/clock domain. It can perform simple background tasks autonomously and independently of the System CPU and the MCU domain power states.
- SCS
- Sensor Controller Studio
- A stand-alone IDE used to write, test and debug code for the Sensor Controller.