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FPGA Chiplets Get a Power and Cost Makeover Thanks to New Partnership

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QuickLogic and YorChip have formed a strategic partnership to develop Low-Power, Low-Cost UCIe FPGA Chiplets. These chiplets are optimized for low power consumption and low cost, opening new possibilities for a wide range of applications, including the fast-growing edge IoT and AI/ML markets. What is UCIe? UCIe (Unified Chiplet Interconnect Express) is an open standard […]

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QuickLogic Leads Industry Trend in Open-Source FPGA Tools

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In 2020, QuickLogic became the first programmable logic company to embrace open-source FPGA User Tools as our preferred and supported offering for our customers. The company’s QORC (QuickLogic Open Reconfigurable Computing) initiative made it possible for developers to use open-source tools to design and build products with QuickLogic’s FPGA devices and eFPGA technology. Our decision […]

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Update on SkyWater’s On-Shore Foundry for Rad-Hard Semiconductors

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Back in March of this year, we announced that we had teamed up with SkyWater Technology to port our eFPGA technology to their 90 nm RH90 radiation hardened process. As noted in our press release at the time, this rad-hard version of our technology can be embedded as an eFPGA IP core in ASIC or […]

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eFPGA Complements OpenHW CORE-V MCU at Embedded World

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At the recent Embedded World Conference in Nuremberg Germany, Digi-Key’s Paige West interviewed Rick O’Connor, the President, and CEO at OpenHW Group, about the organization’s CORE-V MCU Development Kit for IoT applications. As Rick mentions in the interview, OpenHW Group is a non-profit open-source ecosystem with 88 partners and members around the world focused on […]

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eFPGA and Chiplet Technology – A Natural Combination

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Chiplets (modular silicon “chips” mounted as die onto an interposer which interconnects them and attaches to a single package substrate) have been quietly but steadily taking market share from more traditional monolithic semiconductor devices. In fact, Transparency Market Research recently noted that “…the chiplet market is expected to exceed $47B by 2031, with a CAGR […]

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QuickLogic Helps Ease Global Supply Constraints

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Those of you working on the front lines of system development know that the Covid-19 pandemic has brought on a host of global supply chain problems. As consumers we felt it first with bathroom paper products, but eventually the supply challenges rippled through to semiconductors – making it difficult for those selling systems dependent on […]

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Happy New Year!

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Welcome to 2022, everyone. I’m really excited by the potential it holds as all the work we’ve been putting in over the last few years starts coming to fruition. While those efforts resulted in many new initiatives and products for the company, I’d like to take a minute to highlight a handful of the most […]

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Have Fun with SparkFun QuickLogic Thing Plus Contest and Win Prizes!

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SparkFun, the Open-Source FPGA Foundation (OSFPGA) and QuickLogic are teaming up to sponsor a new contest based on the SparkFun QuickLogic Thing Plus – EOS S3 development kit. This tiny but incredibly capable platform combines SparkFun’s Thing Plus form factor and Qwicc® connect system with QuickLogic’s EOS S3 multicore MCU, embedded FPGA, and QuickLogic Open […]

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