Bluetooth™
Bluetooth is a wireless 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 wireless technology was originally designed to enable the personal-area network by allowing users to transmit small amounts of data at about 1M bit/sec. up to about 100 metres over the 2.4-GHz radio frequency. Recent developments have seen the transmission range extend opening Bluetooth wireless technology to a whole new range of applications.
The key benefits of the Bluetooth wireless technology are robustness, low complexity, low power and low cost. Bluetooth wireless technology employs a rapid frequency hopping mechanism to minimise the effects of ‘collisions’ with these other protocols and devices. Mechanisms exist for a Bluetooth enabled device to determine all devices in range as well as to request connection to a piconet as either a master or a slave.
Nohau offers a range of products for customers who are looking to increase the functionality of their products by adding wireless capability. The products from connectBlue and LM Technologies offer instant results by replacing existing cable connections with wireless modules. For those customers who wish to know exactly what is happening at each layer of the Bluetooth stack when products are communicating, the LeCroy analyser range gives full decoding information on all Bluetooth packets transmitted in a piconet.
Products available from Nohau UK
Bluetooth Connectivity Products
Replace your serial cables to provide instant wireless connectivity to existing products. OEM versions allow full intergration into your product housing or use a boxed version for immediate proof of concept. No knowledge of Bluetooth is required and no changes need to be made to your exiting interface. Just configure, unplug and go.
BTTracer/Trainer, Bluetooth V1.2 Analyser and V1.1 Test Generator >>>
This third generation analyser for the Bluetooth standard offers the same non-intrusive design verification system as the original Merlin but is now housed in the LeCroy Universal Protocol Analyser System chassis to provide faster download speed of a larger trace buffer. Analyser now supports version 1.2 of the Bluetooth Specification.Merlin II, portable Bluetooth v1.2 Analyser >>>
Small, powerful analyser fully compliant with the Bluetooth version 1.2 specification.HCITracer, Bluetooth™ Protocol Analyser For Software Developers >>>
A low-cost analyser to probe and capture information from RS232, UART or BlueCore HCI interfaces.- Merlin
Mobile, Bluetooth Protocol Analyser in PC Card format >>>
Take your Bluetooth protocol analysis “where the action is” with this PCMCIA card version of the LeCroy Merlin.
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Introduction to Bluetooth >>>
If you are interested in finding out more about this emerging technology then why not join us for one of our Bluetooth Introductory Seminars. These are designed to give engineers and managers enough detail of the Bluetooth Wireless Protocol to assist in the design decision stage. No previous knowlege of the Bluetooth protocol is assumed.
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