From the “Request Line”, a Q&A on QuickLogic Device Voltages

Hello to our readers.  Hopefully you survived Black Friday with life and limbs intact, and thanks for visiting amongst the frantic Amazon.com Cyber Monday discount shopping (here’s a couple of gift idea: the VEE-enabled Galaxy Tab 3.0 or the iPico projector for iPhone). Through the ‘submit a question’ link to the right, we received a […]

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CES 2014

Believe it or not, it’s getting very close to the CES 2014 show in Las Vegas.    If you are planning on attending the show, please join QuickLogic for exclusive demonstrations, as well as an in-depth discussion on how we can address your mobile design challenges.  We’ll be showing a variety of technologies, including Android KitKat-compliant […]

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Couldn’t Have Said it Better Myself…

Kevin Morris of Electronic Engineering Journal published an article today that I think is probably the most accurate description of QuickLogic and our advantages that I have ever seen from a third party. Here is a brief snippet, followed by the link to the main article: “QuickLogic is still alive and thriving because they recognized […]

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Want to See the AL3 S1 Catalog CSSP in Action?

The newest video posted to our YouTube channel is embedded below for your viewing pleasure. The video demonstrates only a few of the capabilities of the QuickLogic’s ArcticLink 3 S1-based Always-on Context Aware Sensor Hub Catalog CSSP.  Yes — its a true sensor hub — it interfaces with the 9DOF sensors within the device, collects […]

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What Does Always-on Context Awareness Enable?

I’ve spoken in previous blogs about how the ArcticLink 3 S1 enables always-on context awareness through it’s ultra-low power consumption.   Let’s talk about specific use cases and applications it can enable: Health & Wellness Monitoring Smartphones with environmental sensors (temperature, humidity, pressure) can be used to provide well-baby monitoring.  Many parts of the world are […]

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The PolarPro 3 Arrives…

With the announcement of the ArcticLink 3 S1 last week, perhaps some people missed the concurrent announcement of our new programmable logic device, the PolarPro 3 silicon platform. As Andy Pease succinctly pointed out during the product introduction presentation, our ViaLink-based non-volatile programmable logic technology has served QuickLogic quite well for many years, allowing us […]

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Sensor Hubs: Why Power Matters

One point we’ve constantly made about our new Sensor Hub line is that we consume significantly less power than competing solutions — in fact, we are 1/30 the power of existing microcontrollers.   However, a lot of people have asked, and likely will ask: how big of a deal is low power?  We think its a […]

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