QuickLogic Announces Orion Reference Design Supporting TI's Sitara ARM Cortex

QuickLogic Corporation

, the innovator in low-power Customer Specific Standard Products (CSSPs), is proud to announce the immediate availability of its new Orion Reference Design. This CSSP-enabled reference design improves connectivity between the Sitara™ ARM® Cortex™ processors from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) and peripherals based on Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (UART) and High Speed Protocol Secure Access Module (HSP SAM) standards. Portable Data Terminals, Handheld Scanners and Industrial Tablets Mobile enterprise products tend to have an excess of lower bandwidth wireless, sensor, and I/O connectivity requirements which often go beyond what is typically deployed in smartphones and tablets. These UART-based peripherals include 2G wireless modules, high-frequency modules, 1D and 2D barcode scanners, GPS modules, RS-232 ports, IrDA controllers, Bluetooth® modules and more. While mobile enterprise product capability is increasing, the Sitara ARM application processors currently being used typically do not offer an appropriate number of UARTs for many mobile applications.