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BTTracer Protocol Analyzer User’s Manual CATC SW Version 2.20
1.2 General Description
The BTTracer Protocol Analyzer is designed as a stand-alone unit that can
be easily configured and controlled by a portable or desktop PC connected
via its USB port. BTTracer provides customers with the familiar ‘CATC
Trace’ user interface that is the de facto industry standard for documenting
the performance of high-speed serial protocols.
BTTracer supports the functionality required to analyze all levels, including
the baseband, of the Bluetooth wireless protocol. The featured Radio
Interface allows users to probe and analyze transactions at the lowest level
within the Bluetooth architecture. By creating this "Point of Observation" or
probing point within the radio level packet view, the user can analyze all
levels of the protocol stack.
BTTracer is a non-intrusive testing tool for Bluetooth piconets providing
network traffic capture and analysis. Hardware triggering allows real-time
events to be captured from a piconet. Hardware filtering allows the filtering
out of fields, packets, and errors from the recording. Filtering allows users
to focus recordings on events of interest and to preserve recording memory
so that the recording time can be extended.
BTTracer can operate in a single or dual channel configuration.
Two-channel operation requires a second BTTracer module (i.e., an
auxillary module) installed in the right slot.
BTTracer can operate in conjunction with BTTrainer. BTTrainer is a
Bluetooth Exerciser used for verification/validation testing or for debugging
and analysis.
Recorded data is presented in colored graphics in a trace viewer application.
This application has advanced search and viewing capabilities that allow the
user to quickly locate specific data, errors and other conditions, thereby
focussing the user’s attention on events of interest.
The BTTracer Protocol Analyzer functions with any personal computer
using the Windows 98SE, Windows 2000, Windows ME, or Windows XP
operating systems and equipped with a functional USB interface. For an
updated set of system requirements for the host machine, please refer to the
readme file.
The Analyzer is configured and controlled through a personal computer
USB port. It can be used with portable computers for field service and
maintenance as well as with desktop units in a development environment.
The Analyzer is easily installed by connecting a cable between the
computer’s USB port and the Analyzer’s USB port.