QuickLogic Corporation, incorporated on April 4, 1997, develops and markets semiconductor and software algorithm solutions. The Company's solutions primarily target smartphones, wearable devices, tablets, and the Internet-of-Things (IoT). The Company is a fabless semiconductor provider of flexible sensor processing solutions, ultra-low power display bridges, and ultra-low power Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). The Company's solutions integrate multi-core processing, programmable logic, sensor fusion and context aware algorithms, and embedded software. The Company's solutions are created from its new silicon platforms, including EOS, ArcticLink III, PolarPro 3, PolarPro II, PolarPro, and Eclipse II products, its mature products, which are produced on semiconductor processes over 180 nanometers, primarily include its pASIC 3 and QuickRAM, as well as royalty revenue, programming hardware and design software. Its sensor algorithm software includes SenseMe software library.
The Company's customer-specific solutions that include a combination of the Company's silicon solution platforms, proven system blocks (PSBs), custom logic, sensor software algorithms, software drivers, and in some cases, firmware, and application software. The Company's PSBs range from intellectual property (IP), which enables always-on context aware sensor applications, such as its Flexible Fusion Engine (FFE), its Sensor Manager and Communications Manager technologies; to IP that improves multimedia content, such as the Visual Enhancement Engine (VEE) technology, and Display Power Optimizer technology (DPO); to IP which implements used mobile system interfaces, such as Low Voltage Differential Signaling (LVDS), Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI), Secure Digital Input Output (SDIO) and Universal Serial Bus 2.0 On-The-Go (USB 2.0 OTG). The Company provides solutions by creating the solutions jointly with the customer's or ecosystem partner's engineering group, selecting the appropriate solution platform and PSBs, providing custom logic, integrating the logic, programming the device with the PSBs and/or firmware, providing software drivers or application software required for the customer's application, and participating with the customer on-site during integration, verification and testing.
The Company markets customer specific standard product (CSSPs) primarily to mobile device original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and original design manufacturers (ODMs). CSSPs are solutions incorporating its ArcticLink III S, ArcticLink II and III VX and BX, ArcticLink, PolarPro 3, PolarPro II, PolarPro, and Eclipse II solution platforms, packaging, PSBs, custom logic, sensor software algorithms, software drivers and the architecture consulting. The Company partners with customers in the focus markets to architect and design CSSPs, and to integrate and test the CSSPs in the customers' products. In cases where the Company's CSSP has multiple PSBs, system performance or battery life improvements can be realized by enabling direct data transfers between the PSBs, or by offloading more processing tasks from the host processor to the CSSP.
The Company markets CSSPs to OEMs and ODMs offering differentiated mobile products, and to processor vendors wishing to expand their served available market, and to sensor manufacturers wishing to expand their ecosystems. The Company's mobile markets include Tablets, Wearables, Smartphones and Mobile Enterprise. Its solutions fall into three categories: Sensor Hubs, Display and Visual Enhancement, or Smart Connectivity. The Company's CSSPs can be tailored for a specific customer's requirements. The Company is able to develop these CSSPs from a common solution platform, and partner with system designers to implement a range of solutions, or products, that address different geographic and market requirements.
The Company's product technology consists of five elements: programmable logic; ArcticLink solution platform; PSBs which are IP cores, intelligent data processing IP cores, or standard interfaces used in mobile products; sensor software algorithms for use in conjunction with the sensor hub silicon platforms, and a customer engagement model. The Company offers Sensor Hub PSBs, such as FFE, Sensor Manager, or Communications Manager; Display and Visual Enhancement PSBs, such as VEE, DPO or LCD controller interfaces, LVDS and MIPI; Network PSBs, such as High Speed USB 2.0 OTG, high speed Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitters, or UARTs, to enable Bluetooth 2.x + EDR; Storage PSBs, such as Secure Digital High Capacity, or SDHC, boot from managed NAND, Hard Disk Drive and high performance compact flash interfaces, and Other PSBs, such as I2S, PCM, I2C, IRDA, PWM, and other general purpose interfaces.
The Company develops and optimizes sensor software algorithms for use in conjunction with the sensor hub silicon platforms. The Company offers the SenseMe software algorithm library to detect a multitude of consumer use cases from the sensors included in mobile devices, including Contexts, such as Walking, Running, InCar, or OnBike; Gestures, such as combinations of Device Rotation, Twist, or Tap; Wellbeing algorithms, such as heart rate monitoring, or sleep analysis, and combinations of the above that can be used to control the frequency of use and/or power to other devices in a mobile device to minimize power consumption and extend battery life.
The Company's customer engagement model enables it to develop solutions for focus customers who wish to bring differentiated, mobile products. The Company partners with customers to define solutions specific to their requirements, and combine the technologies using one of its solution platforms, PSBs, which are logic IP cores, custom logic, sensor software algorithms, software drivers, firmware and application software. The Company works with the customers to integrate and test CSSPs in their systems.
The Company competes with Toshiba, Lattice, Atmel, ST Microelectronics, NXP, Xilinx and MicroSemi.
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The company trades on NASDAQ exchange. The company headquarter is located in California, CA. The company was established in the 1988.| Ticker | QUIK |
| Long Name | QuickLogic Corporation |
| Short Name | QuickLogic |