Ember Corporation, a wireless semiconductor solutions company which has emerged as a ZigBee market frontrunner, and Frontline Test Equipment, Inc., the leader in WPAN (Bluetooth ® and ZigBeeTM) protocol analysis, today announced that, effective immediately, Ember customers are entitled to a free copy of Frontline’s FTS4ZB TMIEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee protocol analyzer.
FTS4ZB is the industry’s first comprehensive ZigBee protocol analyzer. FTS4ZB air sniffs ZigBee and IEEE 802.15.4 data and decodes the entire ZigBee stack, live and in real-time. Captured packets are displayed in a variety of formats, from raw binary and hex through detailed, fully decoded, field-by-field descriptions.
Ember customers create air sniffing hardware by downloading special firmware, written by Ember, into one of their Ember development boards. The FTS4ZB PC software is downloaded from Frontline’s website. The combination of FTS4ZB software and Ember firmware and hardware provides a powerful debug, test, and verification tool that greatly speeds every aspect of the product development cycle.
Venkat Bahl, Ember’s Vice President of Marketing commented: “Ember recognizes the need to partner with third-party tool vendors—building a first-rate protocol analyzer is a lot of work and rather than take on this task on our own, we turned to Frontline. We know Frontline’s reputation and are comfortable that their sniffer will be a good tool for our customers.”
Eric Kaplan, Frontline President, had this to say: “Being selected by Ember means a lot to Frontline. It reinforces our position as being number one in ZigBee protocol analysis.”
FTS4ZB and the air sniffing firmware are available immediately for all Ember customers, including those who already own Ember development kits. FTS4ZB will be on display at Frontline’s stand (409) at the WiCon show in London.
About Frontline Test Equipment, Inc.
With over sixteen years of experience developing protocol analysis tools, and an installed base of more than 30,000 analyzers, Frontline is a proven protocol analyzer industry leader. Frontline Test System ®(FTS®) software supports serial, Ethernet, Bluetooth, USB, ZigBee, and numerous industrial protocols and buses such as Modbus, DH+, and DeviceNet. www.fte.com.
About Ember Corporation
Ember Corporation develops ZigBee-based wireless semiconductor solutions that help automate homes, make buildings consume less energy, enable manufacturing plants to run with fewer breakdowns, and keep the country’s borders and infrastructure safe and secure. With more than 120 customers, Ember’s vision is to help create an “Internet of things” by enabling the eight billion microcontrollers built into products each year to support low-cost, low-power networking applications in any industry. Headquartered in Boston with offices and distributors worldwide, the company is a lead promoter of the ZigBee Alliance and its technology is the National Technical Systems (NTS)’s “Golden Suite” for testing the interoperability of all 802.15.4/ZigBee products.
