Way back in 1946, comic strip author Chester Gould introduced the concept of a two-way wrist radio which enabled his detective character Dick Tracy to easily communicate with other members of the police force. At that time, the battery and electronic technology available wasn’t even close to being small and efficient enough to make such […]
Category: ArcticLink 3 S2
The Moment Has Arrived
Today is a very exciting day for us here at QuickLogic. We have been hinting recently at a brand name OEM wearable product that would be QuickLogic-enabled. Well, that Moment has arrived. As a gadget guy myself, I like the idea of a wearable that doesn’t need to be charged nightly, and can be worn […]
From the SensorsExpo 2015….
Greetings from an unseasonably cool and damp Long Beach, CA. We’re in day #2 of the SensorsExpo 2015, showing our TAG, TAG-N, ArcticLink 3 S2 smartphone demo, the ArcticLink 3 S2 LP, as well as having a number of interesting conversations around our recently-announced SenseMe™ licensing. The general reaction here has been great; we’ve talked […]
SenseMe — Our Platform or Yours…
Greetings! As we discussed briefly in the Q1 Earnings Call, yesterday we announced that our SenseMe™ sensor algorithm suite is now available for licensing. This allows QuickLogic to not only sell our ArcticLink 3 S2 silicon platform with SenseMe, but to also license SenseMe to customers who may have an existing sensor hub in their […]
SenseMe Transport Enables…
Thanks for checking back in with us! While we’ll be down at Linley this afternoon, I did want to pass along the latest in the series of SenseMe™ videos. In this case, we are showing what our transport algorithms, on the ArcticLink 3 S2 ultra-low power sensor hub, can enable. It’s only fair to note […]
QuickLogic on SemiWiki
SemiWiki covered our ArcticLink 3 S2 LP sensor hub today in an article called Sensing Without (much) Power. Among the highlights: “Quicklogic is the only solution provider with the power consumption of a custom ASIC, the flexibility of an MCU and the algorithm capabilities of a software company.” Enjoy! […]
Press Coverage on the S2 LP
Following up on yesterday’s announcement of the ArcticLink 3 S2 LP sensor hub for wearables and smartphones, here are some links to related third party press. EE Times “Wearables are already on a slim power budget, but QuickLogic Corp. aims to alleviate some of the designer’s grief with a sensor hub with reduced power consumption […]
Lowering Power Consumption with the S2 LP
Hello, and thanks for reading! In QuickLogic news, we announced our ArcticLink 3 S2 LP today, a silicon variant of the standard S2. The S2 LP offers a solution to OEMs who need the absolute lowest power for their wearable devices. Now, the S2 LP does absolutely everything the standard S2 does — but […]
On the Apple Watch…
Apple’s formal announcement of the their smartwatch yesterday has predictably set the consumer device world into a tizzy, with one camp declaring an end game for all other smart wearables, and another camp reacting with a collective ‘meh’. The majority of people seem to be in the middle. They have an interest in the device, […]
This Week’s IoT Summit
As we briefly discussed in last week’s press release (and in a blog before that), Tim Saxe will be keynoting this Thursdays IoT Summit, just down the road from QuickLogic HQ at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Tim’s speech, “What Wearables Design Teaches Us about IoT (Internet of Things”, will open the summit on March […]
