The Mentor Graphics® iSolve™ Multimedia-Analyzer solution addresses one of the main challenges in developing SoC-based products, such as consumer electronic devices and portables that incorporate complex audio and video interfaces — namely early verification of multimedia processing capabilities. iSolve Multimedia-Analyzer collects, analyzes, and visualizes video and audio streams from design RTL running in Mentor Graphics Veloce™ emulators. Through these capabilities, it serves as a “hardware testbench” for the audio and video interfaces boosting system level verification productivity. This product is designed to handle data streams at full emulation speeds for maximum performance. System verification using the iSolve Multimedia-Analyzer solution, together with Mentor’s Veloce emulators, delivers a 1,000 to 10,000X speed improvement over software simulation, saving weeks or even months of regression testing. iSolve MultimediaAnalyzer gives design teams the confidence that comes from running billions of real-world cycles on their SoC before tapeout, meeting customer delivery schedules and rigorous project goals. Incorporating iSolve Multimedia-Analyzer into the design process allows teams to identify and fix system bugs in both hardware and software. Design teams can now perform true system-level verification and address important interoperability and performance issues.