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Merlin Protocol Analyzer User’s ManualCATC Version 1.6
1.2 General Description
The Merlin 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. 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.
Merlin 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.
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 desired conditions,
thereby focussing the user’s attention on events of interest.
The Merlin Protocol Analyzer functions with any personal computer using
the Windows 98, Windows 98SE, Windows NT 4.0, or Windows ME
operating systems and equipped with a functional USB interface. The
Analyzer is a stand-alone unit 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. It is easily installed by connecting a cable between the
computer’s USB port and the Analyzer’s USB port.