SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 11, 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 that it has joined the CHIPS Alliance,
the leading consortium advancing common and open hardware for
interfaces, processors and systems.
"Over the past few years, the electronics industry has seen a
big shift toward open source hardware and software, and we're proud
to be one of the companies at the forefront of that movement," said
Brian Faith, president and CEO at
QuickLogic. "We have already been working closely with several
CHIPS Alliance members to make FPGA tools and devices more
accessible, and we look forward to continuing these efforts as an
official member of the organization."
QuickLogic recently announced the QuickLogic Open Reconfigurable
Computing (QORC) initiative to broaden access to open FPGA
technology for embedded systems developers. QuickLogic's initial
open source development tools, developed in collaboration with
CHIPS Alliance members Google and Antmicro, include complete
support for QuickLogic's EOS S3 low power voice and sensor
processing MCU with an integrated embedded FPGA (eFPGA), and its
PolarPro 3E FPGA family.
Additionally, QuickLogic and Antmicro launched the first fully
open source ArmⓇ CortexⓇ M4 MCU +
eFPGA SoC dev kit, QuickFeather™. Antmicro added support for the
QuickFeather dev kit into the Zephyr Real Time Operating System
(RTOS), as well as in its open source Renode simulation framework.
This small form factor development board is ideal for low-power
machine learning (ML) capable IoT devices.
"The CHIPS Alliance is continuing to focus on expanding its
member base with organizations from a diverse set of industries,"
said Dr. Zvonimir Bandić, chairman of the CHIPS Alliance.
"QuickLogic, a leader in open source eFPGA IP and FPGA tooling,
will help us drive innovation in the FPGA sector and further our
mission to remove barriers for open hardware design."
QuickLogic's Brian Faith will
present "Open Source FPGA Tooling, Our Journey from Resistance to
Adoption" at the CHIPS Alliance Workshop, being held virtually on
Thursday, September 17.
To see the full CHIPS Alliance Workshop schedule and to register
for the event, please visit:
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/chips-alliance-workshop/program/schedule/.
About the CHIPS Alliance
The CHIPS Alliance is an organization which develops and hosts
high-quality, open source hardware code (IP cores), interconnect IP
(physical and logical protocols), and open source software
development tools for design, verification, and more. The main aim
is to provide a barrier-free collaborative environment, to lower
the cost of developing IP and tools for hardware development. The
CHIPS Alliance is hosted by the Linux Foundation. For more
information, visit chipsalliance.org.
About the Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation was founded in 2000 and has since become
the world's leading home for collaboration on open source software,
open standards, open data, and open hardware. Today, the Foundation
is supported by more than 1,000 members and its projects are
critical to the world's infrastructure, including Linux,
Kubernetes, Node.js and more. The Linux Foundation focuses on
employing best practices and addressing the needs of contributors,
users, and solution providers to create sustainable models for open
collaboration. For more information, visit linuxfoundation.org.
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 http://www.quicklogic.com/blog.
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