SLAA600E June 2013 – January 2024
| BOR | Brownout reset |
| BSL | MSP430 bootloader |
| CI | MSPBoot communication interface |
| CRC | Cyclic redundancy check |
| eUSCI | Enhanced universal serial communication interface |
| I2C | Inter-Integrated Circuit |
| MCU | Microcontroller |
| MI | MSPBoot memory interface |
| MSPBoot | The bootloader described by this application report |
| MSP430FRBoot | The bootloader described by MSP430FRBoot - Main Memory Bootloader and Over-the-Air Updates for MSP430™ FRAM Large Memory Model Devices |
| OAD | Over-the-air download |
| OSI | Open systems interconnection |
| PUC | Power-up clear reset |
| ROM | Read-only memory |
| SPI | Serial peripheral interface |
| UART | Universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter |
| USCI | Universal serial communication interface |
| USI | Universal serial interface |