The developer of ultra-low power multi-core voice-enabled SoCs, low power FPGA, embedded FPGA IP and display bridge solutions, QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK), has signed a worldwide distribution agreement with Digi-Key Electronics. The company’s EOS S3 low power microcontrollers, supported by 100% open-source software is now available at Digi-Key Electronics. Digi-Key offers a wide range of selection of electronic components in stock for immediate shipment.
The global partnership is through Digi-Key’s Digi-Key Marketplace. With the addition of QuickLogic products to the Digi-Key Marketplace, customers now have a complete software and hardware ultra-low-power solution, enabling them to go from idea to design within days. QuickLogic products are supported by many popular open-source software tools such as Zephyr, FreeRTOS, SymbiFlow and Renode.
Whether a customer is adding always-on wake word detection, deploying AI inferencing models at the edge/endpoint, or want a low power Arm Cortex-M4F MCU based on completely open-source software, the QuickLogic EOS S3 family of SoCs has a solution. The product portfolio includes:
EOS S3 MCU Sensor Processing Platform – With the integrated Arm Cortex-M4F MCU and embedded FPGA (eFPGA) core, customers can go from idea to prototype to mass production quickly. It is supported by an easy-to-use, low-cost dev kit and open-source software toolchains (Zephyr, FreeRTOS) as well as QuickLogic’s FPGA user tools.
EOS S3 Voice + Sensor Hub – Supports concurrent sensor processing with voice recognition. The ultra-low power solution supports long battery life without sacrificing user experience.
EOS S3-AI – An all-inclusive low power solution and development environment to economically incorporate the benefits of AI in endpoint applications.
QuickFeather Development Kit – QuickFeather is small, Feather compatible, inexpensive, and fully supported by open-source tools. With a Cortex®-M4F MCU and integrated eFPGA, the onboard EOS S3 lets you innovate with fully open-source hardware and software.
Qomu Development Kit – Having both an extremely low power embedded processor and low power FPGA technology makes Qomu the perfect development platform, especially for edge IoT applications and artificial intelligence/machine learning capabilities. The tiny board plugs straight into USB Type-A ports, making it possible to design anywhere.
“QuickLogic’s partnership with Digi-Key is an important milestone in our global growth strategy and increasing our presence worldwide,” said Brian Faith, CEO of QuickLogic. “With this agreement, our solutions can reach a larger, global customer base and will provide easy access to ordering parts from multiple regions.”
“QuickLogic products are optimized for ultra-low power consumption, making them ideal for IoT and consumer mobile applications,” said Anissa Lauer, senior product manager – Marketplace for Digi-Key. “In addition, the Basic Edition of the Analytics Toolkit from QuickLogic’s subsidiary, SensiML®, is already available at Digi-Key. As a result, our customers now have a complete software and hardware solution enabling a more rapid ideation and design process.”
SensiML’s Analytics Toolkit offers customers a complete AI development workflow for data collection, labeling, model generation and test/validation of embedded AI.
“Digi-Key offers the world’s largest selection of electronic components,” Brian added. “Selling through Digi-Key Electronics broadens access to our products by providing engineers an easy way to order devices, kits, and software tools. We look forward to working with Digi-Key to expand our reach.”
