Olof Kindgren, director of the FOSSi (Free and Open Source Silicon) Foundation and a well-known advocate of open source tool flows, recently wrote up a kind of 2020 year in review article called “FOSSi Fever 2020”. In that piece, he dedicated a section to discussing QuickLogic’s proactive open source efforts and noted that we are […]
Our New Qomu Dev Kit Packs a Big Punch in a Tiny USB Form Factor
For those of you that know me, you know how excited I can get about our new products. And our 2nd 100% open source dev kit is no exception. Meet Qomu – our first dev kit that literally fits INSIDE a USB Type A port found on almost every computer in the world. Qomu Dev […]
EDA Cafe Video & LCA Presentation
EDA Café Video Interview with Brian Faith Brian Faith spoke with Sanjay Gangal of EDA Café about QuickLogic’s technology, device and their support of Open Source software like Zephyr, FreeRTOS, Symbiflow & Antmicro. Brian also shared why open source is a game changer for the future of technology. You can watch the interview at https://bit.ly/36wd35t […]
Electronics Industry Predictions
Brian Faith was asked to provide predictions for the Electronics Industry for 2021. His reflections make for some very interesting reading, especially with respect to the democratization of technology access through the use of Open Source tools. You can find the complete article on the EDA Cafe website. You can also click the following link […]
Brian Faith Special Guest this Week on The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
QuickLogic’s CEO Brian Faith was recently interviewed on “The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast”, a roughly hour-long weekly podcast hosted by Dave Jones in Australia and Chris Gammell in the U.S. This episode covers – Open FPGA Toolchains and Machine Learning. The free-ranging discussion covered a lot of ground related to QuickLogic and SensiML technology, including […]
QuickLogic and Antmicro Collaborate on Core-V MCU Project
In July of this year, we announced that QuickLogic would become the first programmable logic vendor to fully embrace an open source development environment. Specifically, we worked with Antmicro to create a fully open-source suite of tools for our QuickFeather development kit, which features our EOS S3 FPGA SoC platform with an embedded Arm® processor. […]
Interview with QuickLogic CEO Brian Faith
On December 18th, GEORGE GILDER’S MOONSHOTS publication distributed an in-depth interview with QuickLogic President and CEO Brian Faith. (You might recall that Mr. Gilder added QuickLogic to his Moonshots portfolio in December of 2019.) The wide-ranging discussion touched on the transition the company is undertaking with its software and IP initiatives, opportunities for market expansion, […]
How Your Tiny Design Can Help Solve a Giant Problem
Scientists in multiple fields and geographies around the globe have identified climate change as one of the world’s most pressing issues. As the earth warms, we will all be affected, some more so than others. This challenge is so large and widespread that there isn’t a single solution. Instead, we need a lot of bright […]
Google’s TensorFlow Lite for Microcontrollers and SensiML – More Powerful Together
Today we issued a press release announcing the integration of SensiML’s Analytics Toolkit with Google’s open source machine learning framework, called TensorFlow Lite for Microcontrollers. Together, SensiML and TensorFlow Lite for Microcontrollers complement each other by offering powerful neural network algorithm execution along with an established AI tool. As I mentioned in our Q2 earnings […]
Why Open Source Ecosystems Make Good Business Sense
QuickLogic just announced that we have joined the Open Hardware Group (also known as OpenHW Group), an organization which describes itself as “a not-for-profit, global organization driven by its members and individual contributors where hardware and software designers collaborate in the development of open-source cores, related IP, tools, and software.” Joining this group underscores our […]
