QuickLogic Names Ian Ferguson to Lead QuickMIPS Group; Brings a decade of experience developing and marketing RISC-based embedded processor solutions

Business Wire, March 10, 2003

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 10, 2003

QuickLogic Corporation (Nasdaq:QUIK), the leader in Embedded Standard Products (ESPs) today announced the appointment of Ian Ferguson as Vice President and General Manager of its QuickMIPS(TM) Group. Ferguson will report to Reg Simpson, QuickLogic's Chief Operating Officer.

Ferguson, who has over 11 years of experience marketing MIPS- and PowerPC-based processors to the embedded market, joins QuickLogic from Integrated Device Technology (IDT). At IDT, Ferguson managed the strategic marketing group, responsible for new product definition, customer design-in activity and the management of the strategic alliance partner program.

"Ian's strong background in a range of marketing roles related to embedded processor technology complements the strong team and the market momentum that QuickLogic has established around its patented ViaLink(R) technology," said Simpson. "The fact that he chose to join QuickLogic further validates our belief that Embedded Standard Products (ESPs) provide a compelling system-on-chip solution for today's design engineers."

"QuickLogic's ability to cost-effectively combine their programmable FPGA core with a powerful embedded processor subsystem on a single piece of silicon enables a unique combination of system performance, customization and flexibility that cannot be realized with ASIC or discrete processor FPGA implementations," said Ferguson. "I am excited by the challenge of making QuickMIPS the standard programmable system-on-chip design solution for the design engineering community."

Ferguson began his career at IDT as the European Business Development Manager. Previously he was a technical marketing engineer at Motorola Semiconductor, UK. Prior to his five-year tenure at Motorola in the European PowerPC(TM) marketing group, Ferguson held various embedded design and sales roles. He holds an EE degree from Loughborough University in the U.K.

Editors: a photo of Ferguson is available on the QuickLogic website 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

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