Summary of QUICKLOGIC CORPORATION

Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement

On November 17, 2009, QuickLogic Corporation (the "Company") entered into a Placement Agency Agreement (the "Placement Agency Agreement") in which Needham & Company, LLC served as the exclusive placement agent (the "Placement Agent") relating to a registered direct offering by the Company to select investors of up to an aggregate of 4,305,929 shares of common stock of the Company, par value $0.001 per share (the "Common Stock"), and warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 3,229,446 shares of Common Stock (the "Warrants") at an exercise price of $2.15 per Warrant. The Warrants are exercisable any time after the six month anniversary of the date of issuance until the 66 month anniversary of the date of issuance. The Placement Agency Agreement contains other terms and conditions that are generally customary for transactions of this nature. The Common Stock and Warrants will be sold in units (the "Units"), with each Unit consisting of (i) one share of Common Stock and (ii) a Warrant to purchase 0.75 of a share of Common Stock. The sale of the Units is being made pursuant to the Placement Agency Agreement and the Subscription Agreements (the "Subscription Agreements"), each dated November 17, 2009, pursuant to which the investors have agreed to purchase and the Company agreed to sell an aggregate of 4,305,929 Units at a purchase price of $1.45 per Unit, for gross proceeds to the Company of approximately $6.24 million. The net offering proceeds to the Company from the sale of the Units, after deducting the placement agent's fee and other estimated offering expenses payable by the Company, are expected to be approximately $5.54 million. The closing of the offering is expected to take place on or about November 20, 2009, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.

The shares of Common Stock, the Warrants and the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants are being offered and sold pursuant to a prospectus dated August 21, 2009, which is included in the Company's shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-161501), which was declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 2, 2009, as supplemented by a prospectus supplement dated November 17, 2009, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

The foregoing is only a brief description of the material terms of the Placement Agency Agreement, the Subscription Agreements, and the Warrants, and does not purport to be a complete description of the rights and obligations of the parties thereunder and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Placement Agency Agreement, the form of Subscription Agreement, and form of Warrant, respectively, that are filed as Exhibits 1.1, 10.1 and 4.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated by reference herein.

This Current Report contains forward-looking statements that involve risk and uncertainties, such as statements related to the anticipated closing of the offering and the amount of net proceeds expected from the offering. The risks and uncertainties involved include the Company's ability to satisfy certain conditions to closing on a timely basis or at all, as well as other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including its annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 28, 2008 and quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the three month period ended September 27, 2009.

The legal opinion, including the related consent, of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Professional Corporation relating to this offering is filed as Exhibit 5.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.

On November 17, 2009, the Company issued a press release announcing the offering. A copy of the press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.