The Merlin, a Bluetooth 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. Merlin 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. Merlin 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. This provides the flexibility to present only the relevant information that the user needs to analyze, thus identification and highlighting abnormal network traffic conditions and decoding standard Bluetooth protocol messages can be done quickly and efficiently.
Hardware triggering allows real-time events to be captured from a piconet.
Hardware filtering maximizes the efficiency of the recording memory by saving only the data traffic of interest. This recorded data is then conveniently displayed using color and graphics in a Windows environment. Advanced search and viewing capabilities allow the user to quickly locate specific data, errors and other desired conditions. Features General Flexible design - reconfigurable hardware for future enhancements. User friendly - the Graphical User Interface software of Merlin Analyzer is designed to be consistent with the CATC Trace using color and graphics to display Bluetooth traffic.