QUIK had 7 jobs open and 5 of them were in software.  2 have been filled recently and any hint of what they were for will soon be gone.  Since this blog is NOT read very much I am free to discuss them a little.

Software test and release engineer

Primary role to fix bugs that might come up in the future and get the fixes out.

I take this as a foreshadowing of good things, ie there are devices( referenced in the cc) that need to have good service provided to them


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Senior staff for SoC development.

they were to have a minimum of three ARM projects under their belts.
It will be an ARM4 core above the FFE.

It will be a platform, ie the one for smartphones will be different in some ways than the one for wearables.


Most wearables are teathered so far in that they use the smartphones radios for actual connection to the cloud, so we may not need it yet for the IoT SoC.

Security is discussed more and more now and ARM has their trustzone that we may use for encryption.
Good encryption HAS to be Hardware.\

5 jobs remain, 4 are in software. One for very advanced location- min. 10 yr experience.

2 for context and gesture.. a few snips...

 general purpose processor such as ARM M4.


It makes sense to me that they would go for the M4, others will try to save a little battery by using M0+ to M3, these have no math units and the savings is small, a LOT smaller than you would think.

The FFE will save the M4 and so it will sleep a LOT more than in others approach to an M4.

The inference is that QUIK has the bits and pieces to make a much better tiered intelligent SoC than most others in the race.

these 2 have a min of 17 yrs of experience.

the remaining software is for sware application engineer...8 yrs min experience, they will help fix bugs also.


35 man yrs will be added to the mix.

QUIK is allocating very well,  several jobs are to fix software glitches after a device is released.   It supports the conclusion there will be devices out there fairly soon, in support of the cc.  The flexibility of the S1 will get to be put to use
in comparison to some glitch that just requires a subsystem get shut down for an ASIC?


In house work on algos,  my recurring question is always...who is in this ecosystem.  Are they good at WIFi?  DO they have GPS, or beacons,  we just don't this this one ALL alone.

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