In July of this year, we announced that QuickLogic would become the first programmable logic vendor to fully embrace an open source development environment. Specifically, we worked with Antmicro to create a fully open-source suite of tools for our QuickFeather development kit, which features our EOS S3 FPGA SoC platform with an embedded Arm® processor. […]
Interview with QuickLogic CEO Brian Faith
On December 18th, GEORGE GILDER’S MOONSHOTS publication distributed an in-depth interview with QuickLogic President and CEO Brian Faith. (You might recall that Mr. Gilder added QuickLogic to his Moonshots portfolio in December of 2019.) The wide-ranging discussion touched on the transition the company is undertaking with its software and IP initiatives, opportunities for market expansion, […]
How Your Tiny Design Can Help Solve a Giant Problem
Scientists in multiple fields and geographies around the globe have identified climate change as one of the world’s most pressing issues. As the earth warms, we will all be affected, some more so than others. This challenge is so large and widespread that there isn’t a single solution. Instead, we need a lot of bright […]
Google’s TensorFlow Lite for Microcontrollers and SensiML – More Powerful Together
Today we issued a press release announcing the integration of SensiML’s Analytics Toolkit with Google’s open source machine learning framework, called TensorFlow Lite for Microcontrollers. Together, SensiML and TensorFlow Lite for Microcontrollers complement each other by offering powerful neural network algorithm execution along with an established AI tool. As I mentioned in our Q2 earnings […]
Why Open Source Ecosystems Make Good Business Sense
QuickLogic just announced that we have joined the Open Hardware Group (also known as OpenHW Group), an organization which describes itself as “a not-for-profit, global organization driven by its members and individual contributors where hardware and software designers collaborate in the development of open-source cores, related IP, tools, and software.” Joining this group underscores our […]
Monetizing Open Source
We unveiled our QuickLogic Open Reconfigurable Computing (QORC) initiative in a June press release and added some background in our blog post titled “Tipping Point”. With this bold step, QuickLogic is the first Programmable Logic company to provide full open-source access to FPGA design and verification tools. The purpose of this blog post is to […]
The Tipping Point
Prelude… Exactly 117 years ago this week, Henry Ford incorporated the Ford Motor Company. Ford didn’t invent cars, nor did Ford invent the manufacturing line. What Ford did do was to recognize the huge potential of blending an existing product (the car) which served a limited market with a new capability (the assembly line) to […]
Recent Events Important to QuickLogic’s Future Growth
Today we announced the pricing of an oversubscribed underwritten registered public offering of common stock that is expected to raise a total of approximately $8.75 million in gross proceeds, before deducting the underwriting discount and other estimated offering expenses. The proceeds will be used for several purposes, including the development of next generation new products, […]
How You Can Help Slow the Spread of the COVID-19 Virus
All of us at QuickLogic and SensiML hope that you and your families are doing well during these challenging times. Like most of you, my wife and I have been working from home for many weeks now, and my children have been participating in distance learning, so I am sympathetic to how the pandemic has […]
The Impact of Technology During the COVID-19 Pandemic
First of all, to anyone who has been directly affected or who has had family or friends directly affected by the current COVID-19 pandemic, our thoughts are with you. We also want to send our thanks and appreciation to all of those fighting on the front lines of this disaster, often risking their own health […]
