During our August 14, 2023 conference call, I mentioned that QuickLogic received a $15 million extension of the government contract initially awarded in 2022, which expanded the scope of the original contract to include a second wafer foundry company. Today, Honeywell Aerospace Technologies published a very flattering blog post, revealing it as the previously undisclosed […]
Open Doors, Open Minds: Brian Ignites FPT Conference with Open-Source FPGA Vision
Brian’s presentation, titled “Open-source FPGA Development: A New Era of Innovation and Growth,” was met with enthusiastic reception at the FPT Conference in Japan last week. The lively discussion that followed, lasting a full 20 minutes after the talk ended, testified to its impact. So, what was it all about? Brian delved into the exciting […]
Aurora 2.4 Development Tool: Celebrating the Power of Open-Source Innovation
QuickLogic is thrilled to introduce version 2.4 of our Aurora eFPGA development tool suite. This release is packed with cool updates that improve the utilization and performance of reconfigurable computing in your RTL designs. This release is super special because it’s built on a strong foundation of open-source modules. We believe in openness and transparency, […]
FPGA Chiplets Get a Power and Cost Makeover Thanks to New Partnership
QuickLogic and YorChip have formed a strategic partnership to develop Low-Power, Low-Cost UCIe FPGA Chiplets. These chiplets are optimized for low power consumption and low cost, opening new possibilities for a wide range of applications, including the fast-growing edge IoT and AI/ML markets. What is UCIe? UCIe (Unified Chiplet Interconnect Express) is an open standard […]
QuickLogic Leads Industry Trend in Open-Source FPGA Tools
In 2020, QuickLogic became the first programmable logic company to embrace open-source FPGA User Tools as our preferred and supported offering for our customers. The company’s QORC (QuickLogic Open Reconfigurable Computing) initiative made it possible for developers to use open-source tools to design and build products with QuickLogic’s FPGA devices and eFPGA technology. Our decision […]
Easing Concerns About Bank Failure
In light of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) making headlines yesterday, we wanted to let you know that QuickLogic had moved its line of credit from SVB to Heritage Bank in October 2018. Heritage remains strong and has assured its customers that it is not facing any of the ongoing challenges that affected SVB. QuickLogic’s cash […]
QuickLogic Year in Review
All of us at QuickLogic send out our best wishes and hope that you have had a joyful holiday season! At the beginning of this new year, I thought it would be a good time to reflect on our progress in 2022 and highlight some of our more meaningful accomplishments. First, we entered the year […]
SRHEC – Quarterly Newsletter
The U.S. Government (USG) Strategic Radiation Hardened Electronics Council (SRHEC) in its quarterly newsletter included a story on QuickLogic being awarded a contract to develop SRH FPGA Technology. As announced in September, QuickLogic Corporation was granted a $6.9 million Base Contract to develop and demonstrate SRH, high reliability Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology to […]
Update on SkyWater’s On-Shore Foundry for Rad-Hard Semiconductors
Back in March of this year, we announced that we had teamed up with SkyWater Technology to port our eFPGA technology to their 90 nm RH90 radiation hardened process. As noted in our press release at the time, this rad-hard version of our technology can be embedded as an eFPGA IP core in ASIC or […]
eFPGA Complements OpenHW CORE-V MCU at Embedded World
At the recent Embedded World Conference in Nuremberg Germany, Digi-Key’s Paige West interviewed Rick O’Connor, the President, and CEO at OpenHW Group, about the organization’s CORE-V MCU Development Kit for IoT applications. As Rick mentions in the interview, OpenHW Group is a non-profit open-source ecosystem with 88 partners and members around the world focused on […]