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.