QuickLogic Named Prime Contractor for $13M SRH Radiation‑Hardened eFPGA Program

SRH eFPGA Program Expansion Names QuickLogic Prime Contractor

QuickLogic announces a $13 million tranche to continue a multi‑year Department of War Strategic Radiation Hardened (SRH) FPGA program that began in August 2022, positioning the San Jose firm as prime contractor on a mission‑critical effort. The award supports development and demonstration of high‑reliability eFPGA Hard IP and ruggedized discrete FPGAs tailored to space and strategic systems, where radiation tolerance, long‑term reliability and supply‑chain assurance are mandatory. Company president and CEO Brian Faith frames the contract as validating QuickLogic’s long‑term commitment to delivering hardened FPGA technology for demanding aerospace and defense environments.

The work funded by the award focuses on iterative demonstration cycles, reliability testing, radiation mitigation validation and systems integration with Department of War integrators and prime contractors, QuickLogic says. Technical objectives include advancing SRH eFPGA architectures and ruggedized FPGA platforms that combine low‑power, customizable silicon with hardened design practices and mitigation techniques to meet Aerospace and Defense Industrial Base requirements. QuickLogic is leveraging its eFPGA Hard IP alongside open‑source toolchains and proprietary tool links to accelerate adoption and reduce integration risk for system developers in space and military programs.

Industry observers say the program underscores a growing emphasis on domestically sourced, radiation‑hardened programmable logic as defense and space programs prioritize resilience and rapid reconfigurability. By serving as prime contractor, QuickLogic is extending its role beyond component supply into systems integration and demonstrator delivery, which could broaden its footprint in high‑assurance programs and create pathways for its chiplet and endpoint AI offerings to be embedded in future platforms.

Product mix and strategy

QuickLogic is a fabless semiconductor developer of embedded FPGA (eFPGA) Hard IP, discrete ruggedized FPGAs, endpoint artificial intelligence solutions and chiplet offerings. The company highlights a strategy of combining low‑power customizable silicon with open‑source tools to address aerospace and defense, industrial, computing and consumer markets; additional information is available at www.quicklogic.com.

Program timeline and next steps

The $13 million award is described as a continued tranche of the SRH initiative that began in August 2022 and is distributed via PR Newswire. QuickLogic expects forthcoming phases to include further demonstrations, radiation testing and integration activities over extended timelines as the program progresses with Department of War system integrators and prime contractors.