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CATC MERLIN’S WAND 1.22 CHAPTER 1
User’s Manual Overview
1. Overview
The CATC Merlin's Wand™ Bluetooth™ Test Generator is the newest
member in CATC's industry-leading line of high performance, serial
communication protocol analysis tools and test equipment.
Preceded by CATC's Merlin™, a Bluetooth Protocol Analyzer, Merlin's
Wand has been designed as an intelligent Bluetooth wireless technology
device that can be used as a verification/validation tester or as an
engineering debug and analysis tool. Through its software interface,
designers and test technicians will be able to quickly and easily issue
protocol commands and test sequences to analyze or validate designs to
ensure compliance to the Bluetooth specification. Merlin’s Wand can be
used in conjunction with the Merlin protocol analyzer, allowing for
real-time captures of test sequence results, as is required by the Bluetooth
SIG to provide evidence of product compliance to the specification.
1.1 Applications
Merlin's Wand is a combination of hardware and Microsoft®
Windows®-based application software. The hardware/software
combination is capable of acting as a standard Bluetooth master or slave
device within a piconet. By allowing this capability, Merlin's Wand can be
used to establish or participate in a piconet and to send or receive data within
the piconet. Through the Merlin’s Wand Bluetooth Wizard, users can
quickly and easily manage Bluetooth wireless traffic generation.
Additionally, via its Command Generator, Merlin's Wand can issue
individual Bluetooth commands to a device under test, allowing a designer
to focus his or her effort on a specific function or group of functions related
to the device. Furthermore, users can quickly create test sequences with
Script Manager, thus eliminating the difficulties normally associated with
the creation of complex test sequences.