SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 8, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- QuickLogic
Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK), a developer of ultra-low power embedded
FPGA IP and programmable logic solutions, today announced that the
ETH Zurich, [in German: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
(ETH)], a renowned technical university located in Zurich, Switzerland, will collaborate to
integrate QuickLogic's ArcticPro embedded FPGA (eFPGA) technology
onto the university's PULP platform. ETH chose QuickLogic's
technology for its ultra-low power operation and its ability to
create new options for extremely power efficient hardware/software
implementations.
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ETH is a science, technology, engineering and mathematics STEM
university in the city of Zürich, Switzerland. It will become the first licensee
of eFPGA technology from QuickLogic on the 22FDX process node. They
will develop an SoC integrating ETHZ's open-source RISC-V cores and
eFPGA technology, enabling users to offload critical functions from
the processor(s) and implement them in eFPGA fabric. This approach
creates multiple hardware co-processors that increase system
efficiency and performance while decreasing power consumption. A
common use case is utilizing the eFPGA to enable hardware
acceleration of feature extraction, which significantly improves
performance and lowers power consumption by offloading those
functions from the RISC-V processor while still maintaining the
ability to adopt updated algorithms.
PULP is a silicon-proven open-source parallel platform for
ultra-low power computing created with the objective of delivering
high compute bandwidth combined with high-energy efficiency. The
platform is organized in clusters of RISC-V cores that share a
common and tightly-coupled data memory subsystem. The platform also
includes a set of System Verilog-described IP blocks, their related
synthesis and simulation scripts, and the runtime software (written
in C and RISC-V assembly) necessary to provide a complete system.
All of the architecture, IP, scripts and software are open sourced
to encourage global collaboration and development.
Integrating QuickLogic's eFPGA technology onto PULP opens a new
dimension of power reduction possibilities for researchers and
developers using the platform. Now, users will be able to explore
hardware/software tradeoffs for different classes of designs and
move certain functions from software running on a processor or
processors to hardware in the eFPGA fabric, thus achieving dramatic
reductions in total system power consumption.
"The high degree of implementation flexibility and ultra-low
power consumption of QuickLogic's eFPGA technology make it a
perfect complement to the extreme power efficiency objectives we
have for the PULP platform," said Dr. Luca
Benini, director of the project and one of its originators.
"We are excited to integrate this technology to evaluate
hardware/software implementation trade-offs, and we are
particularly interested in exploring feature extraction functions
for AI at the edge and security applications."
"The main goal of the PULP program is to use a
multi-disciplinary approach to achieve extremely high-power
efficiency for computing applications," said Dr. Timothy Saxe, QuickLogic's chief technology
officer. "QuickLogic has a tremendous depth of experience in
achieving low power consumption across a broad range of
applications, including AI and IoT at the edge and security, and we
look forward to contributing what we've learned along with our
eFPGA technology to this groundbreaking initiative in low power
computing."
Availability
QuickLogic's eFPGA technology is available now, as is ETH's PULP
platform. The fully integrated system with eFPGA is expected
to be available Q1' 2019.
About QuickLogic
QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK) enables OEMs to maximize
battery life for highly differentiated, immersive user experiences
with Smartphone, Wearable, Hearable and IoT devices. QuickLogic
delivers these benefits through industry leading ultra-low power
customer programmable SoC semiconductor solutions, embedded
software, and algorithm solutions for always-on voice and sensor
processing. The company's embedded FPGA initiative also enables SoC
designers to easily implement post production changes, and increase
revenue by providing hardware programmability to their end
customers. For more information about QuickLogic, please visit
www.quicklogic.com and http://blog.quicklogic.com.
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