Ellisys Bluetooth Vanguard

Widebａnd BR/EDR and Low Energy sniffer, with concurrent capture of Wi-Fi, WPAN IEEE 802.15.4, spectrum, HCI (USB, UART, SPI), Generic UART, SPI, SWD, I2C, WCI-2, logic signals, and Audio I2S

Innovative Tool for Demanding Users

The most advanced, most comprehensive Bluetooth protocol analyzer ever made. Building on a legacy of innovation, the Bluetooth Vanguard All-In-One Wireless Protocol Analysis System delivers new advances designed to ease the increasingly complex tasks of Bluetooth developers.

With its revolutionary widebａnd Digital Radio and integrated All-in-One hardware approach, Ellisys has changed the way Bluetooth protocol capture and analysis is done, by radically overcoming the drawbacks of legacy approaches. The Ellisys whole-bａnd capture approach robustly records any packet, at any time, from any neighboring piconet, with zero-configuration and without being intrusive.

Reconfigurable Bluetooth Digital Radio

The reconfigurable radio concept for Bluetooth analyzers is another innovation from Ellisys engineering. With the Bluetooth Vanguard, this cost-saving feature remains a core user benefit. Reconfigurability means that the analyzer can be updated by software to support new features, without any change to the hardware. For instance, this flexibility allowed for the addition of Bluetooth features such as enhanced AES Security, Connectionless Broadcast, and more recent features, like Coded PHY and the 2Mbps BLE speed enhancement many months before these features were released in an updated specification.

Additionally, Ellisys analyzers come with free lifetime software updates and no restrictions on sharing the application software with co-workers, so our customers can benefit from these great additions hassle-free.

Industry’s First Bluetooth

Widebａnd Capture

Bluetooth wireless technology was originally designed to be robustly impervious to interference on the much-used 2.4 GHz ISM band. It was also designed to be difficult to sniff, for security reasons. To meet these criteria, a Bluetooth radio uses from 40 to 79 channels pseudo-randomly according to a hopping sequence defined at the piconet’s connection time.

A hopping sniffer tries to actively synchronize on a specific hopping sequence, and captures the packets only after a successful synchronization. This kind of sniffer has several inherent limitations, making it more difficult to use, less reliable, and usable only in a limited set of scenarios.

Ellisys created the industry’s first widebａnd sniffer in 2010, which overcame these drawbacks, adding revolutionary features which opened new horizons for Bluetooth debugging and interoperability testing. The widebａnd capture approach is as simple as it is powerful: instead of listening to just a few channels, the sniffer captures all channels concurrently. The sniffer thus does not need to synchronize to a piconet; it will listen passively to all nearby Bluetooth piconets, scatternets, and other topologies without any required configuration.

The All-in-One Sniffer Concept —

Another Ellisys Innovation

Capturing wireless traffic is a very important aspect of Bluetooth debugging, but other information is equally important for understanding the big picture. This is another aspect where Ellisys sniffers excel.

The Bluetooth Vanguard supports one-click concurrent and tightly synchronized capture of:

Wireless Capture

■ Bluetooth Low Energy

■ Bluetooth Classic (BR/EDR)

■ Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac (3x3) [ENT]

■ WPAN IEEE 802.15.4 [ENT]

■ 2.4 GHz Raw Spectrum Energy [PRO]

Wired Capture

■ Bluetooth HCI (UART x2, USB x1, SPI x2) [PRO]

■ General Purpose Logic Signals [PRO]

■ Audio I2S [PRO]

■ Wireless Coexistence Interface 2 [PRO]

■ Generic Communications –UART, SPI, I2C,

SWD [PRO]

Powerful Ellisys Features

■ All-in-One: Fully hardware-integrated, time-synchronized, and truly one-click concurrent capture of BR/EDR, Bluetooth Low Energy, Wi-Fi, WPAN (IEEE 802.15.4), raw RF spectrum, HCI, logic/GPIO, generic I2C, UART, SWD, and SPI, Audio I2S, and WCI-2

■ Widely Acclaimed Software: The Ellisys software application provides intuitive understandings of complex protocol and RF behaviors, and flexible configuration and control to give engineers the insights they need

■ Bluetooth Widebａnd Capture: Easy and rock-solid capture of any traffic on all channels, including discovery/connection traffic and complex topologies

■ Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac (3x3) Capture: Extremely accurate and perfectly synchronized Wi-Fi capture accelerated by Ellisys hardware protocol engine for best-in-class performance

■ WPAN 802.15.4 Widebａnd Capture: Concurrent capture of all 16 WPAN 2.4 GHz channels for an unmatched coexistence analysis capability

■ Connection / Power Flexibility: Connect, control, and power the system locally or remotely via networkable GbE (with Power-over-Ethernet/PoE) or USB 3.1 over Type-C? (with USB Power Delivery)

■ Emerging Features Support: Benefit from early implementation of pre-specification feature additions

■ Mesh Support: Includes full support for Bluetooth Mesh network topologies

■ Reprogrammable Bluetooth Digital Radio: Support for new specifications without hardware changes

■ Multi-Piconet Support: Visualize all topologies, including multiple piconets and scatternets

■ All Protocols and Profiles: Best-of-breed protocol decoding

■ Integrated Audio Analysis: Listen to captured over-the-air audio, including audio over HCI and I2S, within the software, in sync with all other traffic

■ Raw RF Spectrum Display: Characterize the raw wireless environment and visualize coexistence issues

■ Free Maintenance: Free lifetime updates as well as free fully-featured viewer software with unlocked hardware that can be used on any computer