Terms and acronyms¶
General Terms and Acronyms¶
- Customer Configuration
- CCFG
- CFA
- CCFG
- Customer Configuration is set by the application and contains configuration parameters for the ROM boot code, device hardware, and device firmware. It contains lock-bits on the last page of flash. You can read more in the Customer Configuration section in the CC13x2 Technical Reference Manual.
- Code Composer Studio
- CCS
- An integrated development environment to develop applications for Texas Instruments embedded processors. Download: Code Composer Studio
- GNU Compiler Collection
- GCC
- A compiler system produced by the GNU Project, which support various programming languages such as C and C++.
- IAR
- IAR Systems
- MCU
- Microcontroller Unit
- OAD
- Over the Air Download
- 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.
- IB
- Current Bias
- One of several parameters for adjusting output power during packet transmissions. ‘I’ in ‘IB’ stands for the SI unit for current.
- PA
- Power Amplifier
- A RF power amplifier converts a low-power RF signal into a higher power signal. Typically, RF power amplifiers drive the antenna of a transmitter.
- genfsk
- Used as an abbreviation for settings that uses the patch rf_patch_cpe_genfsk. genfsk supports up to 500 kbps FSK and GFSK.
- SLR
- Simplelink Long Range
- RF mode designed to giv a long range. The data rate is 5 kbps.
Over the Air Download (OAD) Terms and Acronyms¶
- BIM
- Boot Image Manager
- A bootloader that runs after the device’s ROM startup code. The BIM is responsible for analyzing the image header of all images and determining the most suitable image to run. Once the BIM has found the proper image, it will jump to it’s program entry.
- CRC
- Cyclic Redundancy Check
- An error-detecting code used to check the integrity of blocks of data.
- ECDSA
- Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm
- A variant of the Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) which uses elliptic curve cryptography.
- Factory Image
- The factory image is a “golden” image that resides in external flash as a failsafe mechanism.
- HIB
- Halt In Boot. A mechanism in CC26xx and CC13xx devices to ensure that the external emulator can take control of the device before it executes any application code.
- OAD
- Over the Air Download
- The process of performing a device firmware update over the air.
- OAD Target
- The device whose firmware is being upgraded over the air. This is assumed to be a CC26xx device running the TI protocol specific transport for OAD.
- OAD Distributor
- The device responsible for accepting an OAD enabled image from the compiler and transferring it over the air to the OAD Target.
Dynamic Multi-protocol Manager Terms and Acronyms¶
- Dynamic Multi-protocol Manager
- DMM
- An arbiter between multiple protocol stacks that are sharing the multi mode RF driver and thus the radio. The DMM aides in scheduling radio operations by way of application provided state information and timing constraints.