– Up to 80% lower power than a standard backlit LCD while providing a rich, TV-quality viewing experience

– Reduces processor duty-cycle to further extend battery life with optional integrated frame buffer
Sunnyvale, CA – October 21, 2009 – QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK), the lowest power programmable solutions leader, today announced engineering sample shipments of its low power ArcticLink® II VX2 solution platform. With embedded 2nd generation Visual Enhancement Engine (VEE™ v2.0), Display Power Optimizer (DPO), optional frame buffer, and low power programmable fabric, the ArcticLink II VX2 solution platform is ideal for display path CSSPs for smartphones, multimedia phones, feature phones, mobile internet devices (MIDs), netbooks, smartbooks, mobile TV devices, and portable navig! ation devices (PNDs). 

The low power ArcticLink II VX2 solution platform incorporates the following key features:

– The embedded VEE v2.0 provides a TV-quality visual experience. By leveraging pixel-by-pixel processing, VEE is effective in all lighting conditions, including direct sunlight.

– The embedded DPO intelligently drives the Pulse Width Modulator (PWM) circuitry of the backlights in TFT LCD displays – reducing display power consumption by up to 80%.

– Up to 32 Mbits of embedded frame buffer using very low power cellularRAM® technology supports up to WSVGA resolution (1024×600) and 24-bit color depth, allowing the mobile processor to be kept in sleep mode while refreshing mobile displays at 60+ frames per second. 

–The programmable fabric supports a diverse suite of fully tested Proven System Blocks (PSBs) and customer specific peripheral connectivity. This provides CSSP customers with faster time-to-market, greater flexibility during market cycles, the lowest possible system power consumption and lower BOM costs. 

“Longer battery life and better display quality have become two of the most important features for portable, media-rich devices of all kinds,” said Brian Faith, VP of Worldwide Marketing for QuickLogic. “As recently as a year ago, battery life specifications addressed only talk time and standby time. However, of equal importance today is what some writers have termed as ‘YouTube minutes.’ Consumers want displays that provide a TV-quality experience, even in direct sunlight, yet don’t rob them of precious battery power. The combination VEE v2.0 and DPO is the only solution on the market that fully addresses these issues.” 

Availability
CSSPs based on the ArcticLink II VX2 solution platform are sampling now, and are scheduled for full production availability in Q4, 2009. 

For more information on ArcticLink II VX2, please go to www.quicklogic.com/vx2

About QuickLogic
QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK) 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

Cryptographic authentication chip allows developers evaluation capabilities of CryptoAuthentication, While maintaining authenticity of end-product firmware and protecting sensitive transmitted data

San Jose, CA, October 21, 2009 – Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) today announced its CryptoAuthentication™ Starter Kit. The AT88CK109STK3 is a modular and versatile development kit for Atmel’s CryptoAuthentication™ AT88SA102S and AT88SA100S client security devices and AT88SA10HS host security companion IC. Atmel’s CryptoAuthentication devices are the industry’s most secure authentication ICs that include an embedded SHA-256 engine and 256-bit cryptographic key to make them virtually impossible to crack using brute force methods. The nearest competing authentication IC has a key size of only 128 bits.

The CryptoAuthentication Starter Kit contains all components necessary for evaluation and demonstration of the capabilities of the CryptoAuthentication IC, as well as for developing SHA-256-based security applications on virtually any embedded platform. The kit includes boards with sockets for the AT88SA102S, AT88SA100S and AT88SA10HS CryptoAuthentication ICs, using a SHA-256 algorithm, an AVR-based small profile USB MicrobaseTM pre-loaded with demonstration software, and samples of the AT88SA102S, AT88SA100S and AT88SA10HS. Demonstration and application development software may be downloaded from www.atmel.com/cryptoauthentication-kit.

Authentication

The SHA-256 algorithm in the CryptoAuthentication devices authenticates by using a “challenge/response” operation between the microcontroller or host device and client. The host can be a portable power tool, printer, medical test equipment or a satellite radio transmitter. The corresponding client can be the battery in the power tool, an ink cartridge, a medical consumable or a satellite radio. 
The AT88SA102S and AT88SA100S client devices in the SHA-256 Starter Kit have a unique serial number plus an embedded 256-bit key that is never exposed. A 63-bit customer secret is burned onto the fuses in the device during the manufacturing system configuration, which can never be read. An additional 23 bits of incremental blow fuses can be used, as needed by the customer. At the beginning of an authentication process (e.g., unlocking a door or installing an ink cartridge), the host microcontroller reads a serial number from the device. The host microcontroller performs a SHA-256 hash based on the device’s serial number, a random number generated by the host microcontroller, the 256-bit key and knowledge of the customer secret from the CryptoAuthentication devices that are also stored in the host. The host then sends the random number to the client as a “challenge”. The AT88SA102S and AT88SA100S client performs their own SHA-256 hash, based on the same information. The resulting digest or “response” is sent back to the host. The host microcontroller compares this response with the SHA-256 digest from its earlier calculation. If they match, the client is deemed to be authentic. The output digest of the SHA-256 calculation is so sensitive to the original information that changing even a single bit of the challenge will result in a completely different value.

Ultra-low Power Consumption

Authentication ICs spend only a small percentage of the time active, so sleep mode power consumption is the most important power consumption metric. With sleep mode power consumption of less than 100 nanoamps (nA), Atmel’s AT88SA102S, AT88SA100S and AT88SA10HS CryptoAuthentication ICs should have virtually no impact on system battery life. Supply voltage for the AT88SA102S, AT88SA100S and AT88SA10HS devices are 2.5V to 5.5V

Availability and Pricing

The SHA-256 Starter Kit is available now from Digikey for $99.95.

Atmel’s AT88SA102S, AT88SA100S and AT88SA10HS CryptoAuthentication ICs are now available in 3-lead SOT23 packages and priced at $0.42 in quantities of 100.