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Merlin Protocol Analyzer User’s ManualCATC Version 1.6
1. Overview
The CATC Merlin™ Protocol Analyzer is the newest member in CATC's
industry-leading line of high performance, serial bus protocol analyzers.
Preceded by CATC’s USB Chief™ and IEEE 1394 FireInspector™
Analyzers, Merlin has been designed using the same modular software and
hardware 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 2000 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 up to 10 meters 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 1.0b for details on the
protocol. The Bluetooth™ specification is available from the Bluetooth™
SIG at its web site http://www.bluetooth.com/