SLAA721E October 2016 – March 2020 MSP430FR5969 , MSP430FR5969-SP , MSP430FR5994 , MSP430FR6989
| BOR | Brownout reset |
| BSL | MSP430 Bootloader |
| CI | MSPBoot Communication Interface |
| CRC | Cyclic Redundancy Check |
| eUSCI | Enhanced Universal Serial Communication Interface |
| MCU | Microcontroller |
| MI | MSPBoot Memory Interface |
| MSPBoot | The bootloader described by MSPBoot – Main Memory Bootloader for MSP430™ Microcontrollers |
| MSP430FRBoot | The bootloader described by this application report |
| OSI | Open Systems Interconnection |
| OAD | Over-the-Air Download |
| SPI | Serial Peripheral Interface |
| ROM | Read-Only Memory |
| UART | Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter |