Terms and Acronyms

General Terms and Acronyms

BDB
Base Device Behavior
CCA
Customer Configuration 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.
ROV
Runtime Object View
A TI-RTOS kernel plugin for CCS and IAR to view a target’s instrumentation data.
RTC
Real-time Clock
RTSC
Real Time Software Componenets. A toolset for creating reusable code, used by TI-RTOS.
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

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.