SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 28, 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 the availability of its ArcticPro™ 3
embedded FPGA (eFPGA) IP, which is now available on Samsung's 28nm
FD–SOI process, enabling OEMs and semiconductor companies to
seamlessly integrate the capability of discrete FD-SOI FPGAs into
their own ASICs/SoCs, greatly optimizing system performance, power
consumption and cost for Edge AI use cases in consumer, IoT, and
automotive applications.
QuickLogic's ArcticPro 3 eFPGA IP has been designed from the
ground up on the Samsung 28FDS process, resulting in a significant
boost in performance and delivering ultra-low standby current
leakage. The 28FDS process supports body biasing, enabling OEMs and
semiconductor companies the ability to "dial in" the ideal
performance/power consumption parameters to meet their system
requirements.
The ArcticPro 3 IP is developed with a homogenous,
reprogrammable fabric architecture based on SLCs (Super Logic
Cells), which consist of eight LUT4 + Register blocks, and it uses
a hierarchical routing scheme that strikes the optimum performance
and power consumption balance needed for computation heavy, battery
powered or other power sensitive products. In addition to the logic
fabric, the eFPGA IP includes the option to integrate fixed
function blocks such as embedded RAM and fracturable
Multiply-Accumulate (MAC) blocks to efficiently implement hardware
accelerators for neural networks and other computationally
intensive circuits foundational in AI/ML applications. ArcticPro 3
is supported by QuickLogic's proprietary tools as well as the
ground-breaking QuickLogic Open Reconfigurable Computing (QORC)
vendor-supported open source FPGA development tools, giving
designers full control over their system software development
environment.
Over the past three decades, QuickLogic's eFPGA IP has been
implemented in numerous SoCs, MCUs, and discrete FPGAs, and shipped
in millions of units into multiple end markets such as consumer,
IoT, military, and industrial.
"The flexibility inherent in programmable logic is widely
recognized as making it an ideal technology for accelerating AI
applications," said Mao Wang, senior
director of product management at QuickLogic. "However, discrete
FPGAs are often too expensive for volume applications and getting
data into and out of FPGAs decreases system performance. With
today's announcement, companies using Samsung's 28FDS process can
now integrate the ArcticPro 3 eFPGA into their own SoC, eliminating
the need to use discrete FD-SOI-based FPGAs – saving BOM cost,
power consumption, and optimizing system performance."
Availability
QuickLogic's ArcticPro 3 eFPGA technology
on Samsung's 28nm FD–SOI process is available now. For more
information, please visit
https://www.quicklogic.com/products/efpga/arcticpro-3.
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 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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