PARIS " Emulation and Verification Engineering SA (EVE), a supplier of hardware-assisted verification solutions, announced it has extended its ZeBu (for zero bugs) hardware assisted verification family to serve the multimedia design community.
EVE (Palaiseau, France) said by using the newly-developed MMB solution with ZeBu-UF, the system-on-chip (SoC) under verification can be connected to real peripherals or to test equipment so as to mimic a complete and scalable SoC verification environment that aims to perform hardware and verification tasks of any MultiMedia/Portable SoC.
The MMB, claimed its developer, accepts daughter modules to accommodate additional interfaces such as HDMI, Still Digital Camera and Video Digital Analog converter.
An Audio/Video (A/V) toolkit complements the MMB. It includes format converters intellectual property (IP) blocks, software drivers and high-speed streaming transactors and supports the ability to capture and playback Audio/Video data streams from/to the SoC under verification implemented in ZeBu.
"Early on, we realized that ZeBu could offer substantial peripheral support and gain wide acceptance from the industry," commented Lauro Rizzatti, worldwide marketing vice president and general manager of EVE-USA, in a statement. "With the introduction of this new board, augmented by our library of high-performance transactors and memory IP, ZeBu strengthens our position in the multimedia SoC verification market."
EVE said the multimedia board is available now for $15,000. The A/V toolkit is priced at $5,000, including drivers and application software.
