Bluetooth verification brought up to date

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Dec 16, 2003

New software for the BTTracer/Trainer, CATC's industry-leading Bluetooth design and verification test system, upgrades the unit to the recently approved Bluetooth V1.2 specification.

New software for the BTTracer/Trainer, CATC's industry-leading Bluetooth design and verification test system, upgrades the unit to the recently approved Bluetooth V1.2 specification.

The unique features and capabilities of the BTTracer/Trainer V2.2 enable design engineers and system validators to develop and prescreen their devices for compliance with the new protocol specification with unprecedented speed, efficiency and detail.

In addition, this new release allows for the creation of a second, completely independent recording channel, includes a "profiles decode" toolbar for easier protocol selection and debug, and expands Bluetooth test cases support.

In conformance with the Bluetooth V1.2 specification, BTTracer/Trainer V2.2 provides support for the following: faster connect, adaptive frequency hopping (AFH), eSCO, L2CAP flow and error control, QoS enhancements, LMP and HCI updates.

V2.2 also supports scatter mode, anonymity mode and absence masks, which are expected in the next release of the Bluetooth specification.

"CATC continues to lead the market by delivering a fully compliant test and analysis solution shortly after the ratification of the new Bluetooth specification", stated Fred Rastgar, Director of Computing Products for CATC.

"We are always looking for ways to deliver more functionality to our customers.

The flexibility, usability and analysis capabilities of this new release establish a new market standard for Bluetooth analysers".

The V2.2 release includes several powerful new features that greatly improve traffic capture, analysis and testing.

With the use of the BTTracer auxiliary module, the user can create a completely independent recording channel that can record not only a mixed piconet, but also up to two AFH channels within a single piconet, a true scatternet environment, or two completely independent piconets.

For easier decoding, a new profiles toolbar has been added to the interface.

The profiles toolbar allows the user to simply select the profile(s) of interest and the associated protocols are automatically selected, thereby eliminating the need to know which protocols are necessary for a profile.

In addition to supporting LMP test cases, the BTTrainer also supports numerous test cases for baseband, L2CAP, SDP, RFCOMM and BNEP, enabling the designer to perform extensive in-house verification testing necessary for first pass success during certification testing.

The BTTracer/Trainer analyser/exerciser is part of CATC's extensive line of superior Bluetooth design, verification and production tools, including the recently announced Merlin II, Merlin and Merlin Mobile analysers and the BPT Bluetooth production tester.