| AACK | Automatic Acknowledgement |
| ACK | Acknowledgement |
| AD | Antenna Diversity |
| AES | Advanced Encryption Standard |
| ARET | Automatic Retransmission |
| BATMON | Battery Monitor |
| CBC | Cipher Block Chaining |
| CCA | Clear Channel Assessment |
| CRC | Cyclic Redundancy Check |
| CSMA | Carrier Sense Multiple Access-Collision Avoidance |
| CW | Continuous Wave |
| CWPAN | Chinese WPAN (defined according 802.15.4c-2009) |
| ECB | Electronic Code Book |
| ED | Energy Detection |
| FCF | Frame Control Field |
| FCS | Frame Check Sequence |
| FTN | Filter Tuning Network |
| GPIO | General Purpose Input Output |
| IRQ | Interupt Request |
| ISR | Interrupt Service Routine |
| LQI | Link Quality indicator |
| LSB | Least Significant Bit |
| MAC | Medium Access Control |
| MCU | Microcontroller Unit |
| MHR | MAC Header |
| MISO | SPI Interface: Master Input Slave Output |
| MOSI | SPI Interface: Master Output Slave Input |
| MSC | Message Sequence Charts |
| O-QPSK | Offset - Quadrature Phase Shift Keying |
| PA | Power Amplifier |
| PAN | Personal Area Network |
| PER | Packet Error Rate |
| PHR | PHY Header, containing the length of the PHY payload in octets |
| PHY | Physical Layer |
| PLL | Phase Locked Loop |
| PRBS | Pseudo Random Bit Sequence |
| PSDU | PHY Service Data Unit |
| RF | Radio Frequency |
| RSSI | Received Signal Strength Indicator |
| RX | Receiver |
| SCLK | SPI Interface: SPI Clock |
| /SEL | SPI Interface: SPI Select |
| SFD | Start-of-Frame Delimiter |
| SHR | Synchronization Header, consisting of preamble and SFD |
| SPI | Serial Peripheral Interface |
| SRAM | Static Random Access Memory |
| TX | Transmitter |
| VREG | Voltage Regulator |
