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