QuickLogic Launches Low-Power Sensor Hub for Wearables

SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwired - Jun 9, 2014) - QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK)

• Catalog Sensor Hub enables new fitness & health applications
• Integrated gesture recognition optimized for wearables use cases

QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK), the innovator of ultra-low-power programmable Customer Specific Standard Products (CSSPs), today announced the immediate availability of its S1 Wearables Sensor Hub, an ultra-low-power, context-aware sensor hub optimized for next-generation wearable applications. QuickLogic's complete, out-of-the-box solution speeds time-to-market for OEMs developing next-generation wearable applications, particularly in the health and fitness space. 

The S1 Wearables Sensor Hub is the latest Catalog CSSP using the company's ArcticLink® 3 S1 silicon platform, and is extensible to QuickLogic's roadmap of future sensor hub silicon platforms. According to NPD DisplaySearch, a market research firm, the market for wearable devices could be as high as 48 million units in 2014 and 91 million in 2015. 

ArcticLink 3 S1 Wearables Turnkey Catalog CSSP Solution Highlights

• Supported Contexts: Walking, Running, Cycling, In-Vehicle, On-Person, Not-on-Person
• Supported Gestures: Tap-to-Wake, Rotate-Wrist-to-Wake
• Supported User Function: Pedometer, including separate step counts for running and walking
• Operating System Support: Android 4.4 (KitKat) and Thread X Real-Time Operating System (RTOS)
• Power Consumption: Less than 250 microwatts Active Power

Native support of a variety of popular contexts and gestures provides OEMs with the flexibility to develop smarter, more accurate and more intuitive fitness and health applications for a wide range of activities. Additionally, the S1 Wearables Sensor Hub contains QuickLogic's unique system timing and control implementation to accommodate the low-power architectures of wearable devices. Offloading the real-time, always-on computation to QuickLogic's sensor hub enables reduced overall system power, thus extending battery life.

"The nascent wearables market represents an ideal set of applications for our ultra-low-power, context-aware sensor hub solution. This highly fragmented market is expected to grow rapidly," said Brian Faith, VP of worldwide sales and marketing. "We believe that our S1 Wearables ultra-low-power sensor hub, combined with contextual awareness and gesture recognition, tailored specifically for the wearable market, will enable OEMs to deliver highly differentiated products."

Availability
The ultra-low-power S1 Wearables Sensor Hub catalog CSSP is available today. The ArcticLink 3 S1 sensor hub platform, which is processor, sensor and algorithm agnostic, is also available for OEMs to customize via QuickLogic's previously announced Integrated Development Environment (IDE). For more information, visit http://www.quicklogic.com/solutions/catalog-cssps/s1-wearables-sensor-hub

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About QuickLogic
QuickLogic Corporation is the inventor and pioneer of innovative, customizable semiconductor solutions for mobile and portable electronics OEMs and ODMs. These silicon plus software solutions are called Customer Specific Standard Products (CSSPs). CSSPs enable our customers to bring their products to market more quickly and remain in the market longer, with the low power, cost and size demanded by the mobile and portable electronics market. For more information about QuickLogic and CSSPs, visit www.quicklogic.com

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