SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- QuickLogic
Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK), a developer of ultra-low power
multi-core voice-enabled SoCs, embedded FPGA IP, and Endpoint AI
solutions, and Antmicro, a high-tech company focusing on
introducing open technologies to modern edge computing systems and
a RISC-V ecosystem leader, today announce that Renode, Antmicro's
open source functional simulation framework for heterogeneous
embedded systems, now has initial support for QuickLogic's EOS™ S3
Sensor Processing Platform. This support enables a more efficient
hardware/software co-design approach within a seamless environment,
improving time to market, and expanding the potential user base for
the EOS S3 SoC.
Renode is a simulation-based open source development framework
for rapid prototyping, development and testing of real-life
systems. It is deterministic and binary compatible with the target
hardware, and comes with a range of developer-oriented features
such as state saving and replaying, fine-grained hooks and events,
comprehensive tracing, multi-core debug, simple and
runtime-loadable platform definitions, and Python support.
Renode's free and open source support for the EOS S3 platform
aims to include a broad range of the platform's peripherals, from
basic controllers such as UART and GPIO, through the interrupt
subsystem, I2C and SPI interfaces, to microphone input support and
innovative HDL co-simulation capability. The framework's capability
to co-simulate SoC and FPGA components with Verilator, or to
connect blocks running in physical eFPGAs to enable a
"divide-and-conquer" HW/SW co-design philosophy, resonates
perfectly with the hybrid SoC FPGA nature of the EOS S3
platform.
"With Renode as part of their everyday toolchain, engineers are
able to develop software in a highly inspectable environment, debug
interactively (even in multi-node scenarios) and create suites of
tests resulting in increased software quality and reduced
time-to-market,'' said Michael
Gielda, VP business development at Antmicro.
"Our overarching strategy with this relationship is to
significantly broaden the served available market for our EOS S3
SoC by enabling hardware development with a more software-centric
approach," said Brian Faith,
president & CEO of QuickLogic. "This initial release of
Renode support for EOS S3 is the first of several planned open
source deliverables resulting from a joint development effort
between Antmicro and QuickLogic."
About EOS S3 Sensor Processing Platform
The EOS S3
Voice and Sensor Processing Platform is an ultra-low power SoC that
combines always-on/always-listening voice processing with fast,
efficient and sophisticated sensor processing capabilities. It
includes a proprietary, patent-pending uDSP-like Flexible Fusion
Engine (FFE) that handles the bulk of the sensor algorithm
processing, which minimizes the processing load for the floating
point MCU. The multi-core design of EOS S3 enables it to be used as
a host processor as well as a companion co-processor. Power
consumption in the always-listening mode is minimized by its
hardware integrated Low Power Sound Detector (LPSD). System-level
power consumption is further optimized by the EOS S3's dynamic
power management technology.
Availability
Initial support for the EOS S3 Sensor
Processing Platform is fully open sourced on Renode's GitHub. The
EOS S3 models released today enable running RTOS-level software in
the EOS S3 processing system, communication over UART, and come
with an easily adapted example setup. To learn more about the
capabilities of Antmicro's open source Renode software development
framework, visit renode.io or write
to contact@renode.io.
About Antmicro
Antmicro is a software-driven tech
company developing modern edge AI systems for various branches of
industry. Antmicro provides applied R&D for customers
worldwide, offering assistance in prototyping, new product
development and adoption of modern embedded technologies, both in
the hardware and software areas. Antmicro's projects involve a
broad range of open source technologies such as RISC-V, Renode,
Zephyr, TensorFlow, ROS, Linux and Android. Antmicro is a Platinum
Founding Member of the RISC-V Foundation, as well as a member of
the Linux Foundation, Zephyr Project and CHIPS Alliance.
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/.
QuickLogic and logo are registered trademarks and EOS is a
trademark of QuickLogic. All other trademarks are the property of
their respective holders and should be treated as such.
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