Company Overview
QuickSilver Technology is the leading developer of adaptive computing IC technologies for high-performance computing products that require low-power consumption, low cost, and architecture flexibility, such as handheld, mobile, and wireless devices. The IC architecture is the Adaptive Computing Machine (ACM).

Adaptive computing empowers OEM/ODM designers with the ability to develop ICs with custom-silicon capability – in weeks or months versus years – while enabling faster time to market, reduced development costs, and the ability to focus on innovating and developing intellectual property (IP).

QuickSilver offers an unprecedented, comprehensive ACM-based design platform that changes the dynamics of how ICs have been developed for the past 30 years. Today, the cost of developing application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) has moved beyond the point of viability for many companies. And system-on-chips (SoCs), which use a combination of ASICs, microprocessors, and digital signal processors (DSPs), present their own set of problems with a complex hardware/software co-design process.

Founded in 1998, QuickSilver Technology, Inc. is headquartered in San Jose, CA. The company has development facilities in San Diego, CA and Seattle, WA, and a sales and technical support office Tokyo, Japan.

QuickSilver’s product line is geared to quickly get developers up and running with ACM-based technology, standard products, and tools. Designers can then proceed to developing software-programmable, custom-silicon capability ICs for on-going products that span multiple generations

Mission Statement:

QuickSilver Technology, the leading developer of adaptive computing technology and products, focuses on developing custom-silicon capability, software-programmable, ACM-based integrated circuits (ICs) for its OEM customers who build products requiring low cost, high performance and low-power consumption, such as handheld, mobile, and wireless devices. QuickSilver combines the flexibility of its Adaptive Computing Machine (ACM) with application development expertise to provide standard products for its markets, enabling OEMs to rapidly and inexpensively develop their own proprietary products.

ADAPT2000™ ACM System Platform
QuickSilver Technology’s Adapt2000™ ACM System Platform, based on adaptive computing machine (ACM) technology, provides a unified design environment that enables the silicon capability of ASIC, DSP, FPGA, and microprocessor technologies to be incorporated within a single IC, an Adaptive Computing Machine (ACM). The Adapt2000 empowers designers with an integrated, scalable, hardware and software platform for the ongoing development of products that span multiple generations. The results are custom-silicon capability designed in software – in weeks or months versus years – with faster time to market, reduced development costs, and the ability for designers to focus on innovating and developing IP. The Adapt2000 ACM System Platform comprises the Adapt2400™ ACM Architecture with four distinct node types, the InSpire™ Node Control Kernel, and the InSpire SDK™ Tool Set.

ADAPT2400™ ACM Architecture
This new ACM architecture is the foundation for a new class of software-programmable IC that offers custom-silicon capability. An ACM-enabled device provides high performance, small silicon area, low power consumption, low cost, and architecture scalability and flexibility – the ideal attributes for handheld, mobile, and wireless products.

INSPIRE™ SDK Tool Set
The Inspire SDK Tool Set is a complete development system for the Adapt2400 ACM Architecture that provides a unified design environment that enables the silicon capability of ASIC, DSP, FPGA, microprocessor technologies to be incorporated within a single IC, an Adaptive Computing Machine (ACM). The Inspire SDK comprises the SilverC high-level design language, simulator, compilers, assemblers, debuggers, and utilities for creating end-to-end solutions for ACM-based platforms. The Inspire SDK is completely software-based and supports all phases of development, from high-level system simulation to compiled binaries running on an emulator or target IC. Its Adapt2400 SilverStream™ Design Flow enables developers to freely express system functionality without the need to consider hardware partitioning, task threading, or memory allocation.

White Papers & Documentation
The Next Big Leap in Reconfigurable Systems
Implementing W-CDMA Transceiver Structure on an Adaptive Computing Platform
In Search of the SDR Holy Grail
Introduction a Paradigm Shift in the Design and Implementation of Wireless Devices
Dataflow in the Adaptive Computing Machine (ACM)