Acronyms and Definitions
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Casira User
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Acronyms and Definitions
BlueCore
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Group term for CSR’s range of Bluetooth chips
BlueSuite
™
Suite of development tools that contains all of the BlueCore utilities. BlueSuite includes
BlueChat2, BlueFlash, PSTools, BlueTest and BTCLI
Bluetooth
®
Set of technologies providing audio and data transfer over short-range radio connections
AC Alternating
Current
ACL
Asynchronous Connectionless (packet data transmitted over Bluetooth)
API
Application Programming Interface
BCCMD BlueCore
Command
BCSP
BlueCore Serial Protocol. A robust, channel based protocol
BT Bluetooth
BTCLI
Bluetooth Command Line Interface. A command-line program for exercising and
configuring CSR Bluetooth chips
BTW
Bluetooth for Windows®
Casira
™
CSR’s main Bluetooth development hardware
CSR
Cambridge Silicon Radio
DLL Dynamically
Linked
Library
DFU
Device Firmware Upgrade
DM Device
Manager
ECP
Extended Capabilities Port
EPP
Enhanced Parallel Port
H4
Bluetooth serial protocol as described in section H4 of the Bluetooth specification (a
simple packet-based protocol)
HCI
Host Controller Interface
LPT
Line Printer Terminal
NNTP
Network News Transmit Protocol
Persistent Store
Storage of BlueCore’s configuration values in non-volatile memory
PS Key
Persistent Store Key
RFCOMM
Protocol layer providing serial port emulation over L2CAP; element of Bluetooth
ROM
Read Only Memory
SCO
Synchronous Connection Orientated. Continuous Stream data (e.g., voice) transmitted
over Bluetooth, as opposed to ACL
SDK
Software Development Kit
SDP
Service Discovery Protocol; element of Bluetooth
SPI
Serial Peripheral Interface
TCL
Tool Command Language
UART
Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter. A chip that turns parallel bus-based data
into a signal that can run down just a few lines and back again.
USB
Universal Serial Bus
VM Virtual
Machine