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in their nRF51822-EK development kit) that can
sniff
traffic from a single peripheral
Wireshark is a mature and powerful open source data-capture and analysis tool that
allows you to easily visualize data down to the packet and byte level. Nordic's Wireshark
plugin (shown in
Figure 6-3
), which is available after registering your nRF51822-EK kit
at
Nordic's support site
, takes data captured via the nRF51822-EK boards and adds useful
descriptions to help make sense of that raw data.
Figure 6-3. Nordic Semiconductor's PCA10000 breakout with the Wireshark plugin
If you are interested only in designing applications that talk to existing BLE peripherals,
you will rarely need to go down to this level. But it can be extremely useful for hardware
designers or firmware engineers working on their own peripheral designs and code or
trying to debug a particular latency or throughput issue.
