According to the company, the platform consists of the Veloce family of hardware-assisted verification products and the iSolve Multimedia product for HTDV applications, which provides a cost-effective and efficient solution, delivering an accurate verification environment.

Mentor Graphics claims that its HDTV platform is used as an essential part of the strategy for verifying HDTV chips, where the verification of a single frame of full-HD video takes millions of clock cycles to run. The high-performance of the HDTV platform makes it feasible to run thousands of full-HD frames, and provides full debug visibility for the user.

Additionally, the platform provides direct visualizations of the HDTV frames, rather than the limited signal-level displays of traditional simulation tools. This delivers an effective and productive debug environment to develop new HDTV products, without compromising delivery schedules.

Mentor has said that its HDTV platform supports the latest high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) and DisplayPort standards, and includes debug and analysis tools for video and audio content, automatic generators for data streaming, and remote access client software to support users in worldwide organizations. The platform can be used with a traditional in-circuit emulation as well as a high-performance transaction-based acceleration mode of operation.

Eric Selosse, vice president and general manager for emulation division at Mentor Graphics, said: "Mentor has led the way for many years in the accelerated verification of HDTV designs, including the first HDMI emulation solution with our iSolve Multimedia product, which is successfully deployed at world-leading consumer electronics companies. Now, with the addition of DisplayPort, Mentor strengthens its position as the premier vendor for hardware emulation solutions for HDTV applications."

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