QuickLogic's QuickMIPS Programmable SoC Certified for Green Hills Software's Development Environment

Business Wire, Nov 11, 2002

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 11, 2002

QuickLogic (Nasdaq:QUIK)

-- Green Hills Software's MULTI(R) 2000 IDE and INTEGRITY(R) RTOS support QuickMIPS(TM)

-- Significantly reduces system development time

-- Enables software & hardware debug in a completely integrated design environment

QuickLogic Corporation (Nasdaq:QUIK), the pioneer in Embedded Standard Products (ESPs) announced today that its QuickMIPS(TM) programmable system-on-chip (SoC) was certified to support Green Hills Software's INTEGRITY(R) Real Time Operating System (RTOS) and MULTI(R) 2000 Integrated Development Environment (IDE). This combination provides embedded system designers with a complete "out-of-the-box" solution that significantly increases design performance while reducing development time by allowing the concurrent debug of hardware and software.

By porting QuickLogic's Board Support Package (BSP) to the Green Hills INTEGRITY and MULTI 2000 embedded system tools, developers now have a comprehensive suite of core and cross-development tools and utilities, optimized for the MIPS processor platform. The BSP includes system initialization code, interrupt generation and handling code and drivers for on-chip devices (such as timers, UARTs, Ethernet MACs) and on-board devices.

"Now that QuickLogic's BSP is certified for INTEGRITY, customers can create their QuickMIPS Programmable SoC designs with industry leading, royalty-free software development tools," said Dan Mender, Director of INTEGRITY Business Development for Green Hills Software. "Using the QuickMIPS SDK as part of this environment will reduce their design time significantly, along with the end product's per-unit cost."

"The Green Hills RTOS and IDE fit our QuickMIPS product model very well," said Judd Heape, system applications manager for the QuickMIPS product line. "Green Hills shares our goal of providing a complete, low-risk design environment for embedded systems designers -- so more of the customers time can be spent adding functionality that differentiates their end product."

QuickMIPS Design Advantages

The complete QuickMIPS development solution includes the SDK, software drivers for real-time operating systems such as Green Hills Software's INTEGRITY, and a QuickMIPS system model. It also offers the first On-Chip Instrumentation (OCI(R)) solution from First Silicon Solutions (FS2) that enables integrated debugging of the programmable logic fabric and the CPU. In addition to the run control and debugging features that are accessible through the MIPS EJTAG port, the device features the FS2 CLAM(R) System (Configurable Logic Analyzer Module), which allows the user to trace and trigger on up-to 128 specified internal nodes (32 at a time) within the programmable logic fabric. Cross triggering between the CLAM system and MIPS CPUs enables instructions to be stopped and traced back to the fabric, thereby speeding software-hardware codesign and co-verification.

The system model, SDK and the programmable logic on the QuickMIPS device enables designers to make software and hardware tradeoffs early in the design cycle, reducing design time and cost. Boot code in Flash memory can be downloaded through the USB port on the SDK. Also, the Ethernet ports on the SDK allow fast downloading of code for application development.

About QuickMIPS

QuickMIPS, first introduced in 2000, combines a secure programmable System-on-Chip with a complete design environment. The QuickMIPS architecture contains an embedded MIPS 4Kc 32-bit processor core, 2x 10/100 Ethernet MACs, UARTs, PCI Controller, 16K Bytes SRAM and other peripherals with 500K gates of programmable FPGA fabric for hardware customization and acceleration. QuickMIPS incorporates the AMBA bus for high-speed interconnection of peripherals and logic. Debugging is easily accomplished using the on-board EJTAG bus and associated CLAM debugging tools. QuickMIPS is both hardware and software programmable, and is based on QuickLogic's ultra-secure, patented Vialink(R) technology.

Availability

QuickLogic's complete development solution and the INTEGRITY RTOS are available now. QuickLogic is also planning to provide QuickMIPS SDK Board Support Package (BSP) for Green Hills Software's INTEGRITY RTOS in November 2002.

Editors: Artwork of the QuickMIPS SDK is available at www.quicklogic.com/press

QuickLogic Embedded Standard Product (ESP) Advantages

QuickLogic's ESP families offer standard product time-to-market and economics coupled with user customizable logic - on the same piece of silicon. The performance, power and cost advantages provided by these innovative devices and QuickLogic's ViaLink(R) based logic architecture, make these integrated circuits ideal for high-speed, low-power applications such as data and telecom systems, instrumentation and test systems. QuickLogic ESP families include QuickMIPS(TM), QuickPCI(TM), QuickRAM(TM), QuickDSP(TM), QuickFC(TM) and QuickSD(TM).

About QuickLogic

QuickLogic Corporation (Nasdaq:QUIK) began developing the Embedded Standard Product (ESP) architecture in 1998, an innovation that delivers the guaranteed performance and lower cost of standard semiconductor products and the flexibility and time-to-market benefits of programmable logic. QuickLogic's ViaLink metal-to-metal interconnect technology offers high performance and is the foundation of the company's ESP families as well as our core FPGA products. Founded in 1988, the company is located at 1277 Orleans Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1138. For more information please visit the QuickLogic web site at www.quicklogic.com