60 percent drop for QuickLogic FPGAs; New speed grade introduced.

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 16, 1995--With the introduction of a new speed grade, the entry price for getting to market faster with QuickLogic's successful WildCat series of pASIC-1 antifuse FPGA devices has dropped 60 percent.

Existing devices saw price drops of up to 40 percent.

With what are acknowledged as the industry's fastest FPGAs, QuickLogic's primary strength has previously been in high speed applications. The new "-X" speed grade is a lower cost, slower device which allows QuickLogic to compete for sockets previously too cost sensitive to take advantage of the pASIC 1 family's ease-of-design benefits.

QuickLogic's proprietary ViaLink logic interconnect technology facilitates inherent capabilities of guaranteed 100 percent routability, timing predictability, and pin-out maintainability.

"Quick Logic has always been proud of our ability to solve the difficult design process problems encountered by users of competing devices," said Ed Smith, QuickLogic's director of marketing.

"With these new low price points, and the exceptional productivity of our new QuickWorks development environment, more customers will be able to use QuickLogic to get their products to market faster and more cost effectively than with any other approach."

"Our competitors speak of `completion rates' when discussing the routing aspect of the design cycle. What this actually means is that a percentage of designs cannot be interconnected in their devices as designed. QuickLogic FPGAs do not use this term because any design can use up to 100 percent of the flip flops and I/O pins, and then route automatically 100 percent of the time," added Tom Hart, QuickLogic president and CEO.

Although the "-X" introduces performance levels lower than QuickLogic's customers are used to, the "-X" is still faster than all speed grades of comparably sized members of Xilinx's XC3000 family and Actel's ACT-2 family.

Price and Availability

Both the 1,000 and 2,000 usable gate devices (QL8x12B and QL12x16B) are available now in this new speed grade. The 4,000 usable gate device (QL16x24B) will be available as a "-X" in the first half of 1995. They are available in 1,000 piece quantity at $10.55 for the QL8x12B-XPL44C, and $20.25 for the QL12x16B-XPL68C. Year end 10,000 piece prices are expected to reach $8.60 and $15.00 respectively.

About QuickLogic

QuickLogic was founded in 1988 by the inventors of the PAL device to deliver new generations of high-speed programmable ASIC products through advanced technology, creative architecture and state-of-the-art design tools.

QuickLogic shipped the programmable logic industry's first metal-to-metal antifuse device, the first gate-array-like interconnect architecture and the first Windows-based FPGA design environment.

QuickLogic extended its performance leadership in the FPGA market with its WildCat series of 0.65 micron devices. QuickLogic is located at 2933 Bunker Hill Lane, Santa Clara, CA 95054. Phone: [phone]; fax: [phone]. The toll-free line for literature is 800/842-3742.

CONTACT: QuickLogic Corporation

Ed Smith, 408/987-2000

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