News & Press Quicklogic's QuickMIPS Programmable SoC Certified For Green Hills Software's Development Environment - Green Hills Software's MULTI 2000 IDE and INTEGRITY RTOS support QuickMIPS - Significantly reduces system development time - Enables software & hardware debug in a completely integrated design environment   Sunnyvale, California – November 11, 2002 -- QuickLogic Corporation (Nasdaq: QUIK), the pioneer in Embedded Standard Products (ESPs) announced today that its QuickMIPS™ programmable system-on-chip (SoC) was certified to support Green Hills Software's INTEGRITY® Real Time Operating System (RTOS) and MULTI® Integrated Development Environment (IDE). This combination provides embedded system designers with a complete "out-of-the-box" solution that significantly increases design performance while reducing development time by allowing the concurrent debug of hardware and software.   By porting QuickLogic's Board Support Package (BSP) to the Green Hills INTEGRITY and MULTI 2000 embedded system tools, developers now have a comprehensive suite of core and cross-development tools and utilities, optimized for the MIPS processor platform. The BSP includes system initialization code, interrupt generation and handling code and drivers for on-chip devices (such as timers, UARTs, Ethernet MACs) and on-board devices.   "Now that QuickLogic's BSP is certified for INTEGRITY, customers can create their QuickMIPS Programmable SoC designs with industry leading, royalty-free software development tools," said Dan Mender, Director of INTEGRITY Business Development for Green Hills Software. "Using the QuickMIPS SDK as part of this environment will reduce their design time significantly, along with the end product's per-unit cost."   "The Green Hills RTOS and IDE fit our QuickMIPS product model very well," said Judd Heape, system applications manager for the QuickMIPS product line. "Green Hills shares our goal of providing a complete, low-risk design environment for embedded systems designers . so more of the customers time can be spent adding functionality that differentiates their end product."   QuickMIPS Design Advantages   The complete QuickMIPS development solution includes the SDK, software drivers for real-time operating systems such as Green Hills Software's INTEGRITY, and a QuickMIPS system model. It also offers the first On-Chip Instrumentation (OCI®) solution from First Silicon Solutions (FS2) that enables integrated debugging of the programmable logic fabric and the CPU. In addition to the run control and debugging features that are accessible through the MIPS EJTAG port, the device features the FS2 CLAM® System (Configurable Logic Analyzer Module), which allows the user to trace and trigger on up-to 128 specified internal nodes (32 at a time) within the programmable logic fabric. Cross triggering between the CLAM system and MIPS CPUs enables instructions to be stopped and traced back to the fabric, thereby speeding software-hardware codesign and co-verification.   The system model, SDK and the programmable logic on the QuickMIPS device enables designers to make software and hardware tradeoffs early in the design cycle, reducing design time and cost. Boot code in Flash memory can be downloaded through the USB port on the SDK. Also, the Ethernet ports on the SDK allow fast downloading of code for application development.   About QuickMIPS   QuickMIPS, first introduced in 2000, combines a secure programmable System-on-Chip with a complete design environment. The QuickMIPS architecture contains an embedded MIPS 4Kc 32-bit processor core, 2x 10/100 Ethernet MACs, UARTs, PCI Controller, 16K Bytes SRAM and other peripherals with 500K gates of programmable FPGA fabric for hardware customization and acceleration. QuickMIPS incorporates the AMBA bus for high-speed interconnection of peripherals and logic. Debugging is easily accomplished using the on-board EJTAG bus and associated CLAM debugging tools. QuickMIPS is both hardware and software programmable, and is based on QuickLogic's ultra-secure, patented Vialink® technology.   Availability   QuickLogic's complete development solution and the INTEGRITY RTOS are available now. QuickLogic is also planning to provide QuickMIPS SDK Board Support Package (BSP) for Green Hills Software's INTEGRITY RTOS in November 2002.   QuickLogic Embedded Standard Product (ESP) Advantages   QuickLogic's ESP families offer standard product time-to-market and economics coupled with user customizable logic – on the same piece of silicon. The performance, power and cost advantages provided by these innovative devices and QuickLogic's ViaLink® based logic architecture, make these integrated circuits ideal for high-speed, low-power applications such as data and telecom systems, instrumentation and test systems. QuickLogic ESP families include QuickMIPS™, QuickPCI™, QuickRAM™, QuickDSP™, QuickFC™ and QuickSD™.   About QuickLogic   QuickLogic Corporation (Nasdaq: QUIK) began developing the Embedded Standard Product (ESP) architecture in 1998, an innovation that delivers the guaranteed performance and lower cost of standard semiconductor products and the flexibility and time-to-market benefits of programmable logic. QuickLogic's ViaLink metal-to-metal interconnect technology offers high performance and is the foundation of the company's ESP families as well as our core FPGA products. Founded in 1988, the company is located at 1277 Orleans Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1138. For more information please visit the QuickLogic web site at www.quicklogic.com   About Green Hills   Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software Inc. is the technology leader for real-time operating systems and software development tools for 32- and 64-bit embedded systems. Our royalty-free INTEGRITY® and the ThreadX® RTOSes, compilers, MULTI® Integrated Development Environment and Green Hills Probe, offer a complete development solution that addresses both deeply embedded and high-reliability applications. Green Hills Software is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA, with European headquarters in the United Kingdom. For more information: call 805-965-6044, email sales@ghs.com.   About FS2   First Silicon Solutions provides IP and tools for testing and debugging of SoC hardware and software. FS2 products help silicon vendors and their customers develop and more effectively market their products, reducing their development cycles, and allowing them to focus on delivering all the potential of the system on silicon. CLAM and OCI are trademarks of FS2. For more information on FS2, call Chuck Swartley at 503/292-6730 or visit the web site http://www.fs2.com   Safe Harbor Statement Under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995   This news release contains forward-looking statements based on current expectations that involve risks and uncertainties including statements regarding pricing and availability of QuickMIPS devices and related products. QuickLogic's actual results may differ from the results described in the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ include, but are not limited to, the performance, market acceptance of our products and integrated products that include our products, the impact of competitive products and general conditions in the semiconductor industry. These and other risk factors are detailed in QuickLogic's periodic reports and registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.   QuickLogic and the QuickLogic logo are registered trademarks and QuickFC, QuickPCI, QuickDSP, QuickRAM and QuickSD are trademarks of QuickLogic Corporation. All other brands or trademarks are the property of their respective holders and should be treated as such. Green Hills Software, the Green Hills logo, INTEGRITY and MULTI are registered trademarks and Green Hills Probe, Slingshot, Integrate, EventAnalyzer and G-Cover are trademarks of Green Hills Software, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their owners.   For More Information Contact: Jan Houts Director, Corp. Communications (408) 990-4256 houts@quicklogic.com Judd Heape System Applications Manager (972) 680-5195 judd@quicklogic