Basic View

The Soft Front Panel Utility is a free software that you can use without a license to measure advertising interval, transmit power, and packet error rate for an Active Scan DUT.

The items are as described in the table below.

Item Information Description
1 DUT Information

Display the information about the selected DUT.

  • MAC address and the RSSI value (in dB) of the selected DUT
  • Device description
  • Advertising data advertised by the selected DUT (hexadecimal format)
  • Responding data received from the selected DUT (hexadecimal format)
  • Supported PER mode (Active Scan, Connect Request or both Active Scan and Connect Request)
2 TX power envelope

To use this feature, you will need to set the Capture Depth (via Configuration panel) which uses the default value of 1000 ms. At the end of the single run, it will display the graph of Power (dBm) against the set duration. 

For more information about this setting and how to configure the Capture Depth setting, go to Bluetooth Low Energy Test Setup Configuration.

Note: In IoT Soft Front Panel Utility, you will not be able to specify the frequency when measuring Tx Power Envelope. In addition, you will not be able to save and export raw data in CSV file. 

3 Advertising interval This will show the minimum, average, and maximum Advertising Intervals recorded in a single run.
4 Transmit power This will show the averaged transmit power measurements for Advertising Channels (Channel 37, 38 and 39).
5 Packet error rate This will show the averaged measurements for packet error rate.