SAN JOSE, Calif. and
BLOOMINGTON, Minn., March 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- QuickLogic
Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK), a developer of ultra-low power
multi-core voice-enabled SoCs, embedded FPGA IP, and Endpoint AI
solutions, today announced it has teamed with SkyWater Technology
(NASDAQ: SKYT), a U.S.-based, DOD-accredited Trusted
Foundry, to make a "fast boot" rad-hard eFPGA IP available to
users of SkyWater's 90 nm rad-hard (RH90) process. This technology
can be embedded as an IP core in ASIC and SoC devices or
implemented as a custom rad-hard FPGA for mission critical and/or
ruggedized applications. QuickLogic's eFPGA technology will be the
first rad-hard embedded FPGA IP to be enabled for SkyWater's RH90
process.
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Embedded FPGA IP provides a host of benefits to its users. Its
reprogrammable technology enables post-manufacturing design
flexibility, which allows single SoC or ASIC designs to serve
multiple related applications – or easily adapt to changing
standards or mission-specific requirements. It also supports
customized implementations for intellectual property protection and
offloading and hardware acceleration for artificial intelligence /
machine learning applications. For defense and other long life
cycle applications, eFPGA technology extends device lifetime by
enabling customers' SoCs and ASICs to accommodate system-level
changes without incurring the high costs of creating and qualifying
a new device. Another key benefit for this eFPGA IP
implementation is the "fast boot" feature. Typical discrete FPGAs
and eFPGA IPs can require hundreds of milliseconds to load their
intended configuration. Through QuickLogic's architecture
innovations, this new eFPGA IP supports sub-100 microsecond boot
times, independent of gate count, which is over 1000X better than
traditional approaches.
Rad-hard applications depend on high-reliability devices that
perform in the harshest environments, including exposure to high
radiation levels. SkyWater's RH90 fully-depleted SOI process will
meet the needs of strategic military, aerospace and commercial
applications for higher density, smaller physical size, and higher
performance devices. Development of this advanced process was
enabled by the previously announced investment in SkyWater's
facility expansion and technology development made under the DOD's
Trusted and Assured Microelectronics program.
This collaboration with QuickLogic expands a developing
ecosystem that will enable a wide spectrum of advanced solutions
for extreme environments. Moreover, customers producing rad-hard
devices will benefit from SkyWater's decades of commercially
focused manufacturing heritage for demanding end markets as well as
from SkyWater's high quality standards for low and high-volume
designs.
"Customers needing rad-hard eFPGA implementations will find a
great solution in SkyWater's RH90 process," said Brian Faith, QuickLogic's CEO. "SkyWater offers
the only onshore, Trusted, 90nm rad hard by process technology. The
RH90 process supports increased density of circuits which improves
speed and performance for digital applications."
"QuickLogic's eFPGA technology is a key element of our RH90
technology platform," said Steve
Kosier, SkyWater's chief technology officer. "By embedding
this IP, customers can gain nearly any level of post-manufacturing
design flexibility for their ASIC and SoC devices while extending
the applicability and longevity of their products. This is
particularly valuable and important for strategic rad hard
applications."
ASIC and SoC developers can benefit from QuickLogic's Australis
eFPGA IP Generator, a tool that creates the eFPGA IP cores in a
highly automated way, from definition to delivery of customized
eFPGA IP. The tool is based on the OpenFPGA workflow and adds
features specific to implementing QuickLogic's eFPGA IP solutions
and provides the level of testing and support required for users to
build devices capable of operating in the harshest of
environments.
Designs implemented using QuickLogic's eFPGA technology are
supported using the company's proprietary software development
tools as well as the OpenFPGA open-source tool flow and a wide
range of QuickLogic-provided and third-party sourced development
kits.
Availability
The QuickLogic eFPGA technology on
SkyWater's RH90 process will be available for licensing through
SkyWater's RH90 IP library or directly from QuickLogic. For more
information about the eFPGA IP offering, visit
www.quicklogic.com/products/efpga/rad-hard-efpga-ip and for more
information about SkyWater's RH90 process, visit:
www.skywatertechnology.com/technology/rad-hard-microelectronics/.
About QuickLogic
QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK) is a fabless semiconductor
company that develops low power, multi-core semiconductor platforms
and Intellectual Property (IP) for Artificial Intelligence (AI),
voice and sensor processing. The solutions include embedded FPGA IP
(eFPGA) for hardware acceleration and pre-processing, and
heterogeneous multi-core SoCs that integrate eFPGA with other
processors and peripherals. The Analytics Toolkit from our recently
acquired wholly owned subsidiary, SensiML Corporation, completes
the end-to-end solution with accurate sensor algorithms using AI
technology. The full range of platforms, software tools and eFPGA
IP enables the practical and efficient adoption of AI, voice, and
sensor processing across mobile, wearable, hearable, consumer,
industrial, edge and endpoint IoT. For more information, visit
www.quicklogic.com and https://www.quicklogic.com/blog.
About SkyWater Technology
SkyWater (NASDAQ: SKYT)
is a U.S.-owned semiconductor manufacturer and a
DOD-accredited Trusted
supplier. SkyWater's Technology as a
ServiceSM model streamlines the path
to production for customers with development
services, volume production and heterogeneous integration
solutions in its world-class U.S.
facilities. This pioneering model enables innovators to
co-create the next wave of technology with diverse categories
including mixed-signal CMOS, read-out
ICs, rad-hard, power discretes, MEMS,
superconducting ICs, photonics,
carbon nanotubes and interposers.
SkyWater serves growing markets including aerospace &
defense, automotive, biomedical, cloud & computing, consumer,
industrial and IoT. For more information, visit:
www.skywatertechnology.com.
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press release contains "forward-looking" statements within the
meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995,
including statements that are based on the Company's current
expectations or forecasts of future events, rather than past events
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performance. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks,
uncertainties, and assumptions, which may cause the Company's
actual results, performance or achievements to be materially
different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking
statements. Key factors that could cause the Company's actual
results to be different than expected or anticipated include, but
are not limited to factors discussed in the "Risk Factors" section
of the prospectus the Company filed with the SEC on April 22, 2021, its quarterly report on Form 10-Q
for the quarter ended Oct. 3, 2021
and in other documents that the Company files with the SEC, which
are available at http://www.sec.gov. The Company assumes no
obligation to update any forward-looking statements, which speak
only as of the date of this press release.
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Press Contact for
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Press Contact for
SkyWater:
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Lauri
Julian
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Communications
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949.280.5602
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408.656.4494
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lauri.julian@skywatertechnology.co
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