Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
Figure 6-1. Master Control Panel displaying advertising data
The MCP is an extremely valuable tool early in the hardware development process,
when you might not have a mobile application for your BLE peripheral to talk to yet.
The Master Control Panel can simulate almost any action that your application will
perform, including validating communication for both incoming and outgoing data.
The MCP also includes a set of C# libraries that can be used to automate any of the
functionality it provides, allowing application developers to create desktop or
command-line applications that have access to a simple but complete set of central APIs.
This can be extremely useful for automated regression testing or production tests.
