QuickLogic Expands PCI Compliant Offerings with High Output Drive FPGA; Completes Solution: PCI Master, Slave, S/W Design Kit.

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 8, 1996--QuickLogic Corp., the leading supplier of FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) silicon and tool technologies for Verilog and VHDL solutions, today announced the expansion of its PCI compliant offerings with a new version of its 4,000 usable-gate pASIC 1 device, the QL16x24BH.

This device combines the flexibility and high performance of QuickLogic FPGAs with PCI-compliant, high-current outputs to create the ideal bus interface device for high-speed bus designs. With the addition of this new device, QuickLogic now offers one of the industry's most comprehensive PCI design solutions, including both Master and Slave devices plus a complete software design kit.

Designers wanting comprehensive PCI functionality can use either QuickLogic's newly enhanced QL16x24BH or the 8,000 usable gate QL24x32B device (introduced in February, 1995) with the master-mode PCI implementation furnished in QuickLogic's free PCI 2.1 Master/Slave Software Design Kit (introduced in January, 1996) which includes full source code and a comprehensive Verilog HDL test suite.

The designer receives the flexibility they need to accommodate 33 MHz PCI into their designs, yet retain PCI compliance with the combination of the design kit and the 4K or 8K devices due to the comprehensive Verilog PCI simulation suite included with the software.

The high performance of the device ensures full PCI specification performance, while meeting 132 Mbyte/sec PCI burst data transfer rates.

"Flexible, high speed FPGAs have become a particularly attractive solution as an increasing number of designers move to integrate PCI functionality into existing designs," said Ed Smith, QuickLogic's director of corporate marketing. "QuickLogic's strength in HDL design flows and our PCI solutions result in the best time-to-market answer for this expanding PCI user community."

The QL16x24BH is a special "H" (high output drive) version of the QL16x24B, a device QuickLogic has had in production for over two years. The high output drive of the I/O pins (24 mA for the two fastest speed grades and 16 mA for the other two speed grades) makes the QL16x24BH well suited to a variety of bus interfaces and bridges, including VME and ISA as well as PCI.

Supported by PCI Design Kit

QuickLogic supports the QL16x24BH with a PCI design kit that provides everything designers need to quickly create their own bus target designs. The design kit includes application notes with detailed design examples, and a floppy disk with complete design files and a comprehensive PCI simulation test fixture described in Verilog.

The design files can be easily modified to suit the user's requirements, allowing rapid system hardware development.

Price and Availability

The QL16x24BH is available now in four speed grades, and is packaged in 84 pin PLCC, 100 pin TQFP and 144 pin TQFP packages. The 84 pin PLCC device has an initial U.S. list price of $25.15 for quantities of 1,000.

About QuickLogic

QuickLogic Corp. is leading the FPGA industry with the optimal HDL silicon solution. QuickLogic delivers a comprehensive HDL (Hardware Description Language) methodology by manufacturing and marketing the industry's fastest FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) and high-productivity, integrated design tools.

Proprietary strengths for the company include metal-to-metal antifuse technology (ViaLink), the leading-edge QuickWorks(tm) design software, and QuickLogic's pASIC 1 and pASIC 2 families of FPGAs which result in the industry's fastest time-to-market solution.

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-FPGA. E-mail at: [e-mail], or visit QuickLogic's website at http://www.quicklogic.com. -0-

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