Tag Archives: QuickLogic

Nearly a year after announcing its strategic partnership with FPGA developer QuickLogic to produce FPGA chiplets, YorChip elaborated on its plans to apply chiplets to more general-purpose applications. Start-up YorChip specialises in UCIe-compatible IP. Last August the company announced a partnership with FPGA provider QuickLogic to collaborate in developing FPGA chiplets optimised for low power consumption and low cost. The ...

Digi-Key Electronics and the FPGA and embedded FPGA IP company QuickLogic are partnering to sell IoT and AI technology through the DigiKey Marketplace. Specifically, the agreement covers QuickLogic’s low power, multi-core MCU, FPGAs and embedded FPGAs, voice and sensor processing products. For example, included are the EOS S3 MCU Sensor Processing Platform, EOS S3-AI, EOS S3 Voice + Sensor Hub, ...

QuickLogic has announced its Australis embedded FPGA (eFPGA) IP Generator. Australis is based on the OpenFPGA IP generator and adds a multitude of additional features and capabilities specific to implementing QuickLogic’s eFPGA IP solutions, along with the level of testing and support required to build commercially viable eFPGA IP. QuickLogic utilises the Australis eFPGA IP Generator to provide ASIC/SoC developers ...

Mouser Electronics has signed a global distribution agreement with FPGA and embedded FPGA IP company, QuickLogic. The distributor will initally stock Quicklogic’s EOS S3 low power microcontrollers (pictured) and QuickFeather development kits, supported by open source software. The agreement means Mouser will stock the EOS S3 sensor processor. This is a multi-core SoC based on low power, multi-core Arm Cortex M4 microcontroller ...

QuickLogic has introduced its Qomu development kit, a tiny form factor Arm Cortex-M4F MCU + eFPGA combination that fits into a USB Type A port. Optimised for the QuickLogic Open Reconfigurable Computing (QORC) initiative, the kit is supported by a wide variety of vendor-supported open source development tools, including Zephyr, FreeRTOS, SymbiFlow and Renode, which broadens access and enables designers ...

QuickLogic has announced QORC (QuickLogic Open Reconfigurable Computing) initiative offering a fully open source suite of development tools for its FPGA devices and eFPGA technology. This initiative engenders the emerging trend toward open source tooling, significantly broadens access to the company’s products, and enables both hardware and software developers with tools supported by both the user community and QuickLogic. The company’s ...

QuickLogic is to lay off 30% of its employees to make savings of about $4 million a year. QuickLogic expects the lay-offs will incurr restructuring expenses of about $600,000 of which $500,000 will be in cash and mostly coming in calendar Q2 2020. ‘The changes are expected to only have a minimal impact on the Company’s research and development efforts ...

SiFive has entered a strategic development partnership with QuickLogic. The two companies will develop the Freedom Aware family of SoC templates which extends SiFive’s chip design capabilities and radically lowers the cost and development time associated with new SoC designs.  The Freedom Aware SoC templates lower risk through the use of tested building blocks and a suite of development tools that ensure ...

QuickLogic has joined the RISC-V Foundation, the open, free instruction set architecture (ISA) consortium. QuickLogic says there is strong synergy between the company’s embedded FPGA (eFPGA) (left) initiative, its membership in the GlobalFoundries FDXcelerator Partner Program for 22FDX SoC design, with faster migration to FD-SOI from bulk nodes such as 40nm and 28nm. eFPGA customers using the 22FDX technology will ...

In a world of RISC processors, QuickLogic created a CISC co-processor for its EOS multi-core sensor hub chip to save power in wearables. The co-processing core is called the ‘flexible fusion engine’ (FFE, diagram below). “We worked out the power needed to do a 32bit read from memory was 10x the power needed for multiplication, and RISC processors tend to have ...