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We learned recently that Tektronix has discontinued the last of its logic analyzer family. Sigh….Here at FuturePlus Systems we walked the careful balance between the two Whales, Tektronix and HP/Agilent/Keysight. Mostly siding with the later and ...

Recently JEDEC announced the new JESD209-5 Low Power Double Data Rate 5 (LPDDR5) specification. LPDDR5 is faster and lower power than its predecessors LPDDR4 and LPDDR4x. Want a copy of the specification? Click Here

Hello Memory Enthusiasts! Please see here a guest post by the distinguished Patrick Moran Thanks Pat for allowing the repost!

DisplayPort is the latest display technology on the market and is generally considered to be a competitor to HDMI. The VESA specification which describes the DisplayPort Technology lists two types of transport modes. The first is SST or Single ...

FAST SODIMMS for DDR4 are here!

A Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (aka RAS) feature more clearly documented in the new JEDEC DDR4 Rev B spec, Gear-down mode, allows the DRAM Address/Command and Control bus to use every other rising clock of the DDR4 Memory bus clock.

In order to give DDR4 a mid life kicker memory vendors are up’ing their game and producing 3DS DDR4 DIMMs. What is 3DS you ask? Its 3 Dimensional Stacking of die in a single package. Not to be confused by ‘twin die’ which is just 2 die next to each ...

DisplayPort, the HDMI Replacement

The latest DisplayPort V1.4 HBR3 8K monitors are trickling onto the market with DELL being the first to show off its latest UltraSharp 32 model. FuturePlus took a look under the hood by snooping all of the traffic on the 8.1Gb/s high speed main link ...