Three products from Mentor for HDMI 2.0 chip design

If you are designing a SoC chip integrated with HDMI 2.0 interface. You can test your HDMI 2.0 part of your SoC design using Mentor Graphics' verification solutions. VLSI designers stress-test their software and hardware with billions of verification cycles before silicon is available. The product iSolve Multimedia from Mentor Graphics has a ‘plug-and-play’ hardware interface to its Veloce family of hardware emulators. This setup can be used to verify new HDMI 2.0 devices (chips for set-top-boxes, digital TVs, PCs, tablets, and mobile phones) in the SoC design. Users can create compliant HDMI 2.0 frames on-the-fly from industry-standard files, such as AVI or other file formats, and exercise their design with thousands of HDMI frames. High-performance, graphical analysis tools help to identify problems related to the digital video/audio output from the user’s design, and perform debug that is critical in determining the functional correctness of the SoC, says Mentor Graphics. Also Mentor's Veloce VirtuaLAB Multimedia for HDMI 2.0 offers similar level of functionality of iSolve solution, but in a pure software-based environment or “virtual lab” environment. Mentor says this option increases the flexibility of using the Veloce emulator for multiple users worldwide, where they can use the Veloce emulator as a data center resource and not be concerned with hardware set...