References

General Terms and Acronyms

CCFG
Customer Configuration

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 CC23xx SimpleLink Wireless MCU Technical Reference Manual.

CCS
Code Composer Studio

An integrated development environment to develop applications for Texas Instruments embedded processors. Download: Code Composer Studio

DTB
Digital Test Bus

Internal clocks and interrupts can be brought out to I/O pins via DTB muxing. Refer to the CC23xx SimpleLink Wireless MCU Technical Reference Manual for more details.

FreeRTOS

A free, open source Real Time Operating System(RTOS).

eRPC
Embedded Remote Procedure Call

An open source Remote Procedure Call (RPC) system for multichip embedded systems and heterogeneous multicore SoCs.

GCC
GNU Compiler Collection

A compiler system produced by the GNU Project, which support various programming languages such as C and C++.

IAR

Refers to IAR Systems’ IAR Embedded Workbench, which is an integrated development environment used for building and debugging embedded applications.

MCU
Microcontroller Unit

A small computer on a single integrated circuit.

NVS
Non-Volatile Storage

Storage of data in non-volatile memory (NVM). NVM retains saved data during power cycles. In the context of CC23xx devices, NVM either refers to the internal flash or some external flash.

PTX

Primary Transmitter or “PTX” is the device that acts as the transmitter in the system most of the time.

PRX

Primary Receiver or “PRX” is the device that acts as the receiver in the system most of the time.

ROM
Read-only Memory

Type of non-volatile memory used in computers. Once data is written to ROM, the data cannot be removed and can only be read.

RTSC
Real Time Software Components

A toolset for creating reusable code, used by TI-RTOS. See RTSC and RTSC-Pedia.

SWD
Serial Wired Debug

It is a 2-pin debug interface defined by Arm. See ARM_SWD_PROTOCOL for more information.

SysConfig
System Configuration Tool

SysConfig is a graphical interface for configuring software projects. Configuration files, C source files and header files are generated based on the parameters configured in the SysConfig dashboard. See Get started with SysConfig.

TI-CLANG
TI Arm Clang Compiler Toolchain

The TI Arm Clang Compiler Toolchain (tiarmclang) is the next generation TI Arm compiler, replacing the previous TI Arm Compiler Tools (armcl). You can use the tiarmclang compiler toolchain to build applications from C, C++, and/or assembly source files to be loaded and run on one of the Cortex-M or Cortex-R Arm processors that are supported by the toolchain. You can find more information here.

VIMS
Versatile Instruction Memory System

A system control module that handles access to the device memory areas from the CPU and system bus. You can read more in the CC23xx SimpleLink Wireless MCU Technical Reference Manual.

.bss

Block started by symbol. This memory section usually contains uninitialized variables including the task stacks.

Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) Terms and Acronyms

HWI
Hardware Interrupts

A FreeRTOS hardware interrupt.

Idle Task

A FreeRTOS default task that is executes when no other higher priority thread needs to run.

ROV
Runtime Object View

A FreeRTOS 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 FreeRTOS software interrupt.

TI-RTOS
Texas Instruments Real Time Operating System

An RTOS developed by TI for TI microcontrollers.

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 fail-safe mechanism.

HIB
Halt In Boot

A mechanism in CC23xx 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 or CC13xx 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.

General Terms and Acronyms

BDB

Base Device Behavior

cJTAG
compact JTAG

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.

CSMA-CA

Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance

CUI

Common User Interface

DMM
Dynamic Multi-protocol Manager

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.

GPD
Green Power Device

Zigbee devices designed for applications with a strict energy budget.

GPDF
Green Power Data Frames

Data frames transferred by Green Power Devices.

GPP
Green Power Proxy

Any Zigbee device capable of routing Green Power Data Frames.

GPS
Green Power Sink

Zigbee device responsible for commissioning Green Power Devices into the network.

GPRAM
General purpose RAM

This memory area is used for the cache per default, but can be configured to be used as RAM.

IEEE 802.15.4

The Institue of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 802.15.4 protocol specifies the physical and medium access layers for wireless Personal Area Networks targeted at low power, low data rate applications

JTAG
Joint Test Action Group

IEEE standard 1149.1: Standard Test Access Port and Boundary Scan Architecture Test Access Port (TAP). This standard is known by the acronym JTAG.

LQI

A measurement of the quality of a received packet. LQI measurements are performed on by the RF core by measuring the signal to noise ratio (SNR) of the desired signal to the in-band noise.

MT

Monitor and Test

OTA

Over the Air

OTA Client

A device capable of downloading an image from an OTA Server using the OTA cluster

OTA Server

A device capable of hosting an image for download by an OTA Client using the OTA cluster

PAN

Personal Area Network

RSSI
Received Signal Strength Indicator

It is a measurement of the power present in a received radio signal.

SDK

Software Development Kit

SoC
System on Chip

Processor core and radio are integrated on same device.

ZC

Zigbee Coordinator

ZCL

Zigbee Cluster Library

ZED

Zigbee End Device

ZDO

Zigbee Device Object

ZR

Zigbee Router