Terms and Acronyms¶
- BIM
- Boot Image Manager, the software bootloader
- IDE
- Integrated Development Environment
- RAM
- Random Access Memory
- RF
- Radio Frequency
- NV
- Non-Volatile Memory
- DFE
- Direct Frame Exchange
- IEEE
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- PHY
- Physical layer of the OSI model
- OSI
- Open Systems Interconnection model
- MAC
- Medium Access Control
- SUN
- Smart Utility Network
- PAN
- Personal Area Network
- CSMA/CA
- Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance. This prevents nodes from talking while the air is occupied. Used in all bands except 868MHz
- LBT
- Listen Before Talk. This prevents nodes from talking while the air is occupied. Used in 868MHz band.
- DH1CF
- Direct Hash Channel Function. This is used to produce a psuedo-random channel sequence for frequency hopping devices.
- CCA
- CCFG
- Customer Configuration Area, contains lock-bits on flash page 31 and the Customer Configuration Table (.ccfg)
- CCS
- Code Composer Studio
- An integrated development environment to develop applications for Texas Instruments embedded processors. Download: Code Composer Studio
- IAR
- IAR Systems
- GCC
- GNU Compiler Collection
- A compiler system produced by the GNU Project, which support various programming languages such as C and C++.
- 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
- RTOS
- Real Time Operating System
- FFD
- Full Functionality Device
- RFD
- Reduced Functionality Device
- CLI
- Command Line Interface
- GUI
- Graphical User Interface
- BBB
- BeagleBone Black
- SDK
- Software Development Kit
- FAN
- Field Area Network
- MT
- Message and Test Interface
- NPI
- Network Processor Interface