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8 LIST OF ACRONYMS
This chapter defines a collection of terms that are commonly used when talking about networks in general or ZigBee in
particular.
AC Alternating Current
ACK Acknowledge
ADC Analogue-to-Digital Converter
API Application Programming Interface
ARM Advanced RISC Machines Ltd, now ARM Holdings
BiCMOS Bipolar junction transistors combined with CMOS technology
BER Bit Error Rate
CMOS Complementary Metal–Oxide–Semiconductor
CPU Central Processing Unit
CTS Clear To Send
dB decibel, logarithmic unit of measurement that expresses the magnitude of a physical quantity
dBm Power ratio in decibels of the measured power referenced to one milliwatt (1 mW)
DC Direct Current
DWT Data Watch-point and Trace
EEPROM Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EMI Electromagnetic Interference
ESD Electrostatic Discharge
FE Front End
FPB Flash Patch and Breakpoint
GPIO General Purpose Input/Output
HAL Hardware Abstraction Layer
HBM Human Body Model
HF High Frequency
HVAC Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning
I²C Inter-Integrated Circuit bus
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IRQ Interrupt Request
ISM Industrial, Scientific and Medical radio band
ITM Instrumentation Trace Macrocell
JTAG Joint Test Action Group, digital interface for debugging of embedded device
LNA Low Noise Amplifier
MAC Media Access Control layer
MCU Microcontroller Unit
MPU Multi-core Processing Unit
PA Power Amplifier
PCB Printed Circuit Board
PER Package Error Ratio
PSD Power Spectral Density
PTI Packet Trace Interface
RAM Random Access Memory
RF Radio Frequency
RF4CE Radio Frequency for Consumer Electronics consortium
RSSI Received Signal Strength Indicator
RX Receiver
SMD Surface Mounted Device
SPI Serial Peripheral Interface
STM STMicroelectronics, an Italian-French electronics and semiconductor manufacturer
TWI Two Wire Interface, a variant of I²C
TX Transmitter
UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
U.FL Miniature coaxial RF connector (up to 6 GHz) manufactured by Hirose Electric Group in Japan
VCO Voltage Controlled Oscillator
ZigBee, ZigBee PRO Wireless networking standards targeted at low-power applications
802.15.4 The IEEE 802.15.4-2003 standard applicable to low-rate wireless Personal Area Network