SAN JOSE, Calif., June 16, 2020 /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 its groundbreaking QORC (QuickLogic Open
Reconfigurable Computing) initiative, making it the first
programmable logic vendor to actively embrace a fully open source
suite of development tools for its FPGA devices and eFPGA
technology. This initiative engenders the emerging trend toward
open source tooling, significantly broadens access to the company's
products, and enables both hardware and software developers with
tools supported by both the user community and QuickLogic.
The company's initial open source development tools, developed
by Antmicro in collaboration with QuickLogic and Google, include
complete support for its EOS S3 low power voice and sensor
processing MCU with embedded FPGA, and its PolarPro 3E discrete
FPGA family. Support for additional QuickLogic products, including
QuickAI and support for its eFPGA IP offering will be added over
the next few months.
EOS S3 Open Source Development Tools:
- FPGA Development Flow: SymbiFlow – Open source
tools for the optimization and automation of the FPGA design flow,
from Verilog to bitstream generation. These tools enable innovation
by making FPGAs more accessible to a broader community.
- SoC Emulation: Renode – Antmicro's Renode is an
open source simulation framework for rapid prototyping, development
and testing of multi-node systems. Utilizing Renode gives
developers the flexibility to fully evaluate multiple development
board applications.
- Zephyr Real Time Operating System (RTOS) – The
Zephyr RTOS is an open source, vendor-neutral, compact, real-time
operating system running on the Arm® Cortex®-M4F for connected,
resource-constrained and embedded devices in applications that
require security and safety.
- QuickFeather Development Kit – A small form factor,
100% open source hardware development kit ideal for the next
generation of low-power Machine Learning (ML) capable IoT
devices.
Traditionally, programmable logic vendors offered and supported
only proprietary synthesis, place and route tools. Open source
tools were relegated to hobbyists, academics, and independent
consultants. However, the electronics industry is starting to see a
shift toward open sourced hardware and software as it provides
flexibility, vendor and community support, longevity, and
adaptability to each engineer's design flow. Google and Antmicro
have been noteworthy influencers in this market, increasing the
breadth of supported architectures and quality of results for the
open source tools. They are now not only viable but desirable for
the majority of the development community, including design teams
at many of the industry's largest companies.
"QORC is QuickLogic's initiative to embrace the rapidly growing
open source FPGA tooling ecosystem, inspiring engineers to
collaborate on the creation of exciting and innovative products,"
said Brian Faith, QuickLogic's
president and CEO. "We believe that the wide adoption of open
source tools represents a paradigm shift for the industry, and
we're proud to be at the leading edge."
"With its open source-centered approach, Antmicro has been
moving the technological frontier, building whole ecosystems of
non-proprietary solutions and overcoming the limitations inherent
in closed technologies," said Michael
Gielda, Antmicro's VP of business development. "We've been
excited to participate in this historical first from QuickLogic, by
contributing our expertise in software, hardware and tools to
implement the necessary SymbiFlow, Renode and Zephyr support for
their hardware platform – broadening their reach within the
developer community."
Availability
SymbiFlow FPGA, Renode SoC Emulation, and Zephyr RTOS support are
available now for QuickLogic's EOS S3 voice and sensor processing
platform and PolarPro 3E FPGA products, as well as the new
QuickFeather Development Kit. Support for QuickLogic's embedded
FPGA technology will be added later this year. To learn more,
please visit www.quicklogic.com/QORC.
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,
PolarPro and SensiML are trademarks of QuickLogic. All other
trademarks are the property of their respective holders and should
be treated as such.
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