Frontline Test Equipment's Bluetooth Protocol Analyzer Achieves Industry Certification And Latest Specification Compliance.Business Editors, High Tech Writers CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 21, 2001 SerialBlue(TM) Is Now Bluetooth SIG (Special Interest Group) Certified and Bluetooth Version 1.1 Compliant! Frontline Test Equipment, Inc., the leader in affordable, PC-based, data communication test equipment, today announced that their SerialBlue(TM) analyzer for the HCI (Human Computer Interaction) Refers to the design and implementation of computer systems that people interact with. It includes desktop systems as well as embedded systems in all kinds of devices. UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter) The electronic circuit that makes up the serial port. Also known as "universal serial asynchronous receiver transmitter" (USART), it converts parallel bytes from the CPU into serial bits for transmission, and vice , L2CAP L2CAP - Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol , and BCSP BCSP Board of Certified Safety Professionals BCSP BlueCore Serial Protocol (Bluetooth protocol) BCSP Black-Chinned Sparrow (Spizella atrogularis , bird species) BCSP Baseline Communication Support Plan Bluetooth protocols has received formal certification from the Bluetooth Special Interest Group The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) is the body that oversees the development of Bluetooth standards and the licensing of the Bluetooth technologies and trademarks to manufacturers. (SIG), and has been upgraded to attain compliance with Version 1.1 of the Bluetooth specification. Bluetooth SIG certification and Version 1.1 compliance provide assurance to Bluetooth product developers that SerialBlue conforms completely to the latest standards published by the SIG. The SerialBlue feature set includes real-time data capture, timestamping, filtering, and error analysis. However, the product's truly differentiating attribute is its ability to fully decode data frames on the link between a Bluetooth host and host controller -- at the bit level. This full decoding capability enables Bluetooth product developers to rapidly detect and isolate even the most minute and intermittent problems associated with their product designs. "SerialBlue is an invaluable tool for debugging and testing our Bluetooth 1.1 qualified designs," according to Tom Cargill, Integration and Test Manager at leading Bluetooth chipmaker Silicon Wave. "We also use it in our application support area to help customers integrate their designs with our solutions. The first time we used SerialBlue on a customer problem we found the problem in ten minutes. This was a very subtle bug and without SerialBlue it would have taken many hours to find." SerialBlue runs on any Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000 compatible PC. In its standard configuration, using two standard PC serial ports, the product supports data rates up to 115.2 Kbps. With an optional high-speed serial card, also available from Frontline, SerialBlue supports speeds up to 921.6 Kbps. SerialBlue is priced at $3,495 and is available immediately. About Frontline Test Equipment, Inc. Founded in 1991, Frontline Test Equipment, Inc. designs, develops, markets, and supports cost-effective, PC-based data communication test tools for the computer and communications industries. The company is currently fielding a family of general purpose and application-specific protocol analyzers based upon a common protocol-decoding engine -- the Frontline Test System(R) (FTS FTS facteur thymique sérique. (TM)) software. The resulting consistent look and feel across all Frontline products drastically reduces learning curves for engineers working in multiple protocol environments. In addition to SerialBlue, currently available products based on the FTS software include: Serialtest(R) Async, Serialtest Spy, and AsyncExpress(TM) (asynchronous Refers to events that are not synchronized, or coordinated, in time. The following are considered asynchronous operations. The interval between transmitting A and B is not the same as between B and C. The ability to initiate a transmission at either end. serial data and protocol analyzers); Serialtest ComProbe(R) (synchronous/asynchronous serial data and protocol analyzers); SerialBERT(R) (Bit Error Rate Tester); Ethertest(R) (10/100 Mbps Ethernet analyzer), and FTS for IA & SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) A process control application that collects data from sensors and machines on the shop floor or in remote locations and sends them to a central computer for management and control. (Industrial Automation and SCADA communication protocol analyzer). FTS products are PC-based and support Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, and 2000. Frontline is headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia, with a sales and support office located in Vienna, Austria. The company distributes products worldwide to a diverse customer base including AT&T, Sprint, SBC (1) (SBC Communications Inc., San Antonio, TX, www.sbc.com) A large, national telecommunications company that grew from a multitude of local and regional companies, including Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell, into a single, unified brand by 2002. , Verizon, Amoco, General Electric, Rockwell Automation, Department of Defense, Burlington Northern Railroad The Burlington Northern Railroad (AAR reporting marks BN) was a United States-based railroad company operating between 1970 and 1995. History The Burlington Northern was the product of a March 2, 1970 merger comprising the Great Northern Railway, the Northern , VISA, 3COM (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. , and America Online (AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. ). The worldwide installed base of Frontline products exceeds 25,000. About Silicon Wave Based in San Diego, Silicon Wave designs and produces RF communication system components that consistently deliver superior user experience. Silicon Wave products include Odyssey(TM) solutions for Bluetooth wireless communications and the Sentinel(TM) line of silicon tuners and modules for cable modems and digital set-top boxes. Founded in 1997, the company was the first to deliver a fully qualified, single-chip radio modem for Bluetooth communications and first to achieve Bluetooth version 1.1 qualification for its products. Silicon Wave is an Associate Member of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group. The company's Web site is located at www.siliconwave.com. Serialtest, SerialBERT, Ethertest, ComProbe, and Frontline Test System are registered trademarks, and Frontline, FTS, and SerialBlue are trademarks of Frontline Test Equipment, Inc. All other trademarks belong to their respective owners. |
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