QuickLogic Expands into Mobile Accessory Market with SDIO System Block

November 6, 2007 // Published as a news service by IHS

This block, part of the QuickLogic functional library for its customer-specific standard product (CSSP) platforms, enables a range of accessories for mobile devices using the SD memory card and SDIO peripheral interface.

According to QuickLogic, as consumers demand higher levels of integration, more functions are put into single devices such as smartphones, personal media players (PMPs) and personal navigation devices (PNDs).

The same trend is also seen in the accessory market. Expansion cards and thumb drives are integrating multiple radios for Wi-Fi, mobile TV and other wireless technologies, along with flash memory storage for data and multimedia content.

The most commonly used interfaces in mobile devices are high-speed SD/SDIO and universal serial bus (USB). "This SDIO client system block opens a whole new range of applications for QuickLogic's CSSP platforms," said Howard Li, QuickLogic senior platform marketing manager.

"QuickLogic's SDIO client block can be integrated into a variety of QuickLogic's CSSP platforms and can be tailored by QuickLogic to meet customer-specific requirements. Mobile market architects and designers now can easily attach Wi-Fi, mobile TV, Bluetooth and NAND [Not AND] flash storage to a standard SDIO interface in a single device," Li said.

The SDIO client block has been added to the QuickLogic system block library for its CSSP platforms. The company said its CSSP approach blends fixed logic blocks with an array of low-power customizable building blocks (CBBs) for implementing additional standards-based or custom functions.

This approach offers development teams a customizable platform that addresses the need to meet cost, battery life and printed circuit board (PCB) space requirements, while also maintaining the flexibility to evolve designs as market demands change.

Source: QuickLogic Corp.