Date: 30/12/2009

Bluetooth test set from Anritsu with low energy testing option

Anritsu has introduced the MT8852B, a Bluetooth test set with low energy testing option to conduct radio layer testing in compliant to the Bluetooth Core Specification 4.0. The MT8852B Bluetooth low energy is suitable for sports and fitness device applications such as heart rate monitors, medical products such as blood glucose meters and industrial sensors.

The new Bluetooth low energy measurement option adds six low energy test cases to the base MT8852B test set, and is used to complete a test script covering Bluetooth Basic Rate, Enhanced Data Rate (EDR) and low energy measurements in < 15 seconds by pressing a single key, highly simplifying production test programs.

The MT8852B test set also has the unique ability to test the Adaptive Frequency Hopping (AFH) feature of Bluetooth that facilitates co-existence with 2.4 GHz 802.11 WLAN products.

Bluetooth low energy measurements are performed directly on the MT8852B, which controls the DUT using defined HCI or 2-wire control commands. For development applications, the MT8852B low energy measurement option is supplied with a PC application that displays low energy reference test packets in graphical format, and providing clear pass/fail status for all supported measurements against the specified limits. This facilitates the identification of the causes of any device failure during the critical design and development stages.

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