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
OOB: Out-Of-Box
PIB: Personal-Area-Network Information Bases
RCFG: TI-RTOS in ROM Configuration Table
ROM: Read-only Memory
SNV: Simple Non-Volatile storage
ICALL: Indirect Call
RTOS: Real Time Operating System
FFD: Full Functionality Device
RFD: Reduced Functionality Device
CLI: Command Line Interface
GUI: Graphical User 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.
RTC: Real-time Clock
Swi: A TI-RTOS Software interrupt.
TI-RTOS: Texas Instruments Real Time Operating System
Zero-Latency Interrupts: An interrupt when genereated, will not be routed through the TI-RTOS kernel’s Hwi dispatcher. For more information, see this wiki article.

BIM: Boot Image Manager
OAD: Over the Air Download
OAD Client: The device whose firmware is being upgraded over the air. This is assumed to be a CC13xx device running the TI 15.4-Stack OAD service.
OAD Server: The device responsible for accepting an OAD enabled image from the compiler and transferring it over the air to the OAD Client.