8-K

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, DC 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of

the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported)      April 25, 2008

QuickLogic Corporation

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware	000-22671	77-0188504
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)	(Commission File Number)	(IRS Employer Identification No.)

1277 Orleans Drive, Sunnyvale, CA	94089-1138
(Address of principal executive offices)	(Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code      (408) 990-4000

N/A

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

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Item 5.02   Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

On April 22, 2008, QuickLogic Corporation (the “Company”) appointed Michael R. (“Mike”) Farese, President and CEO of BitWave Semiconductor, Inc., to QuickLogic’s board of directors.  Mr. Farese will serve as a Class I director and member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, with a term that expires on the date of QuickLogic’s Annual Meeting of Stockholders in 2009.  There are no arrangements or understandings between Mr. Farese and any other person pursuant to which Mr. Farese was selected as a director. There are no transactions involving Mr. Farese that would be required to be reported under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.

Section 9   Financial Statements and Exhibits

Item 9.01(d) Exhibits.

99.1         Press release of QuickLogic Corporation dated April 25, 2008 announcing the appointment of Mr. Michael R. (“Mike”) Farese to the board of directors of the Company.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

Date: April 25, 2008	QuickLogic Corporation
	/s/ Carl M. Mills
	Carl M. Mills Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer

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EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit No.	Description
99.1	Press release of QuickLogic Corporation dated April 25, 2008 announcing the appointment of Mr. Michael R. (“Mike”) Farese to the board of directors of the Company.

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EX-99.1

Exhibit 99.1

Contact: Andrea Vedanayagam
Director, Corporate Communications
QuickLogic Corporation
(408) 990-4000
andrea@quicklogic.com

QuickLogic Appoints Mike Farese,

Mobile Market Veteran, to Board of Directors

Sunnyvale, CA – April 25, 2008 — QuickLogic® Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK), the lowest power programmable solutions leader, today announced the appointment of Michael (“Mike”) R. Farese, president and CEO of BitWave Semiconductor, Inc., to QuickLogic’s board of directors.

Mr. Farese has over 35 years of broad technology company leadership encompassing three chief executive officer positions, and functional leadership in marketing, engineering, sales management and operations.  Since September of 2007, Mr. Farese has been the president and CEO of BitWave Semiconductor, a fabless semiconductor company and innovator of software programmable radios designed for the wireless markets.

Prior to joining BitWave Semiconductor, Mr. Farese was Senior Vice President of Engineering for Palm Inc., where he was responsible for product engineering, and product development with ODM partners. While at Palm, he led the engineering efforts that resulted in the introduction of the Treo 680, Treo 700, and Treo 750 smartphones. Before joining Palm in 2005, he was the president and CEO and board member of WJ Communications.  He has also held senior management positions at Motorola, Ericsson Inc., Nokia Inc., and IT&T Corp and is a board member of PMC-Sierra. Mr. Farese has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

“Mike’s extensive background and wealth of knowledge in consumer products and converged devices, especially cellular smartphones, makes him an ideal candidate for QuickLogic’s board,” said E. Thomas Hart, QuickLogic’s chairman, president and CEO.   “We are excited that Mike is

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joining the board.  His insight and experience will be very valuable in helping guide QuickLogic as we further expand into our focus mobile markets of smartphones, portable media players, portable navigation devices, mobile internet devices and broadband data cards.”

About QuickLogic

QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK) is the inventor and pioneer of innovative, customizable semiconductor solutions for mobile and portable electronics OEMs and ODMs.  These silicon plus software solutions are called Customer Specific Standard Products (CSSPs).  CSSPs enable our customers to bring their products to market more quickly and remain in the market longer, with the low power, cost and size demanded by the mobile and portable electronics market.  For more information about QuickLogic and CSSPs, visit www.quicklogic.com.

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