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LPDDR4 to LPDDR4X: What is the difference?
Hello Memory Enthusiasts! Please see here a guest post by the distinguished Patrick Moran Thanks Pat for allowing the repost! LPDDR4 was introduced in 2014 about two years after LPDDR3. This was probably the fastest transition for a new generation memory ever in...
DisplayPort Multi Stream versus Single Stream: What is the difference?
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 Stream Transport. The...
Want to Ca$h in on Bitcoin, BlockChain and Cryptocurrency? Speed up your DDR Memory Accesses
Attention all Bit Coin, Ethereum Miners, Block Chain Fans and Distributed Ledger Technology experts. Do you REALLY understand the computing limits of your hardware? These applications are among the most compute intensive applications today. Like most compute...
Fast 3200MT/s DDR4 SODIMMs
FAST SODIMMS for DDR4 are here! Traditionally SODIMMs (Small Outline DIMM) have been used in the mobile environment because of their smaller size. For DDR3 SODIMMs did not have ECC so they were not even considered for Servers. When DDR4 was created there was...
What is DDR4 Memory Gear-Down Mode?
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. The Memory...
DDR4 3DS DIMMs: The next big thing in the Data Center
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 other and not...
Got DisplayPort?
Calling all DisplayPort Developers. FuturePlus Systems will be at the next VESA DP PlugTest Nov 13-17 in Burlingame CA. Sign up for a test session and see how your DP design performs with real life DP sources and sinks. All test results are yours to take with you. ...
NEW DisplayPort 8K monitors. Let’s look under the hood!
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 and the Aux...
Data Centers: Don’t Throw that DIMM Away!
According to Facebook, DDR Memory is the #2 failure in the Data Center. A Carnegie Mellon paper that studied DDR Memory failures in Facebook’s data center reported that FB swapped DIMMs out of ~1% of their servers on a monthly basis. Given the number of servers that...
DDR Memory in Medical Devices: A disaster waiting to happen?
Many medical device manufacturers are experts on the medical portion of their product, but what about the compute engine? This is the part that does not touch the patient but makes the decision based on the data. Many medical device manufacturers use off the shelf...
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