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BTTracer Protocol Analyzer User’s Manual CATC SW Version 2.20
1. Overview
The CATC BTTracer™ Protocol Analyzer is the top-of-the-line member of
CATC's industry-leading line of high performance, Bluetooth protocol
analyzers. Preceded by CATC’s Merlin
™ and Merlin Mobile Analyzers,
BTTracer has been designed using the same modular architecture that made
its predecessors highly successful in the serial bus protocol analyzer market
worldwide.
1.1 Bluetooth™ Overview
The Bluetooth wireless technology is set to revolutionize the personal
connectivity market by providing freedom from wired connections. It is a
specification for a small-form factor, low-cost radio solution providing links
between mobile computers, mobile phones and other portable handheld
devices, and connectivity to the internet.
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), comprised of leaders in the
telecommunications, computing, and network industries, is driving
development of the technology and bringing it to market. The Bluetooth
SIG includes promoter companies 3Com, Ericsson, IBM, Intel, Lucent,
Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia and Toshiba, and more than 2500 SIG
members.
Bluetooth is a radio technology specification designed to transmit both
voice and data wirelessly, providing an easier way for a variety of mobile
computing, communications and other devices to communicate with one
another without the need for cables. Bluetooth could make possible what is
being called the personal-area network by allowing users to transmit small
amounts of data at 1M bit/sec with a range of 10 to 100 meters, depending
the power of the radio, over the 2.4-GHz radio frequency. The key benefits
of the Bluetooth technology are robustness, low complexity, low power and
low cost. Bluetooth employs a rapid frequency hopping mechanism to
minimize the effects of ‘collisions’ with other protocols and devices
operating in the same frequency band. Mechanisms exist for a Bluetooth
device to determine all devices in range as well as to request connection to
a piconet as either a master or a slave.
Please refer to the Bluetooth Specification, version 1.2 for details on the
protocol. The Bluetooth specification is available from the Bluetooth SIG at
its web site http://www.bluetooth.org/