Topic: Avalon chip @ 0.086 BTC/chip + ASIC Board Assembling Services. (Read 14586 times)

No one answers the phone. I called yesterday.

Have tried to mail as well.

this guys seem like having a lot experience with ASIC. even they can design ASIC chips and probably place a manufacturing contract somewhere.  not the best wait to start, though. Avalon ASIC chips not costly at all. But for them having experience with ASIC is a big plus.

try,
http://www.aizyc.com/asic/asic-/-soc-design.html
Aizyc Technology Pvt. Ltd.
6th Floor, Plot No:488 & 489 
Ayyappa Society, Madhapur 
Hyderabad 500081  India   
Phone +91 (40) 645 99770
Fax: +91 (40) 309 95281

one is http://bitmapper.org/

another I cannot find. Ironically Pune appears to be home for large number of such industries. Seems it all boil down to whom you know.

http://dir.indiamart.com/impcat/pcb-design-services.html

Can you please gimme the company names?

that can be interesting as well, just I do not have time for it. I called and emailed to two companies regarding ASIC boards with no result and dropped this project for a while.

If you can find company who will manufacture FGPA miners on Spartan, then we can talk, on speed, power consumption, cost per board, minimum batch. With electricity cheap in India it make a lot of sense.

Importation of Avalon chips is not a problem at all. 

Low Cost DIY ASIC Miner

Purpose:
This thread is intended for the development of a very low cost DIY open source
ASIC miner based on Avalon's chips. Hopefully, it will inspire other Bitcoin ASIC
manufactures to offer their chips as well.

Objectives:
* Get ASICs in the hands of the masses ASAP.

* Create the cheapest solution possible. The lowest possible price is the goal.
The $ per hash ratio is not expected to be the best.

* Make it simple enough that anyone with a DIY spirit can assemble one of these with
some simple low priced tools.
https://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/category/2
DIY manufacturing may be an avenue to get these out much faster.
Expect a few hours assembly time per board.

*Make the PCB design that is not only DIY friendly, but mass production friendly as well.
It will use surface mount technology.

*Inspire more ASIC Bitcoin Mining manufactures to pop up all over the world (Decentralization).
ASIC manufacturing in general is the most complicated production process in the world.
IMO, the best thing for Bitcoin would be for ASIC Bitcoin Manufactures to be decoupled from
final product production; or at least offer their chips as well on top of their final products.

Specifications (subject to change):
* USB power source is all that is required.
* Utilizes a single Avalon ASIC
* 256+ MH/s
* 2 Watt maximum power usage
* TYPE A USB Male option on either side of the PCB
* Type B USB Female option
* More to come

Sponsors:
*Burnin - He is a serious manufacture of Bitcoin mining equipment. He has committed to helping
with the open source software/firmware to make this project function. He has started an official
thread for his miners and it's worth checking out:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/work-in-progess-burnins-avalon-chip-to-mining-board-service-179769

*Zefir - He is preordaining Avalon ASICs in smaller quantities for anyone interested:
funds: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/closed-avalon-asic-chip-distribution-177827
Zefir is committed to helping this low cost DIY project be successful by making a small quantity
of chips available for ordering and development.

Team:
All of you! An open source design also means its open to anyone. Feel free to take the initiative
to help out in your own way. Please don't get discouraged as it may take time to figure
out where your talents fit in best. I have received an overwhelming quantity of supportive emails
and also many request to help out. I wasn't prepared for that, but now, I would like to make
a list of anyone that wants to get involved here and what they would like to bring to the table.
Shoot me ANOTHER email and I will add you name here.

"Someone42" who was the inspiration and pioneer in hardware wallets has offered his help here.
"Burnin" has also offered his help, but is also very busy as he is preparing his own miner.

Allten's Commitment:
I will engineer the schematic and the PCB. As soon as the chip specifications are available, I will
release within a week a preliminary design for feedback. I will personally manufacture enough
of these to get them in the hands of all those that will be helping with firmware/software development.
After that, a detailed tutorial will be made on how to order and produce these by yourself.

Important note: I do not want to become a distributor for these for the simple fact I would like
to have time available for other projects I'm passionate about. This is a golden opportunity for anyone
or a few people to become distributors of DIY kits and already assembled miners. I will assist anyone
to get set up for this once I've completed the tutorial.

Funding:
Sending some coins would be very helpful and greatly appreciated.
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What will donations cover? Enough to order the parts and PCBs for the initial boards used for development.
All extra will be used to drive bounties for software/firmware development.
I get the feeling that many have ordered chips with confidence that there will be a PCB solution
readily available before the ASICs arrive. If that is the case, consider donating up to 5% of
what you invested in chips to this project. It would sure help hurry it a long! Much of the bounty portion
may go to "burnin" as his code development for the controller portion will be shared with this project and
he is most heavily invested to make it work along with his product ASAP.

I can buy batch of Avalon chips from Avalon 10000 chips delivery in 10 weeks in average. What is missing a company which can make boards in India. Try to find such company who can design and make boards for 10 - 20 chips per board and USB pen drives with one chip as well.

If we will have such company I will order chips and sale boards locally. In 4-5 month we can have boards available locally. Also Avalon provide chip for testing purpose, so testing can be completed before chips arrive to India. I own private limited company which can do importation of chips and execute manufacturing contract for boards.

I can buy batch of Avalon chips from Avalon 10000 chips delivery in 10 weeks in average. What is missing a company which can make boards in India. Try to find such company who can design and make boards for 10 - 20 chips per board and USB pen drives with one chip as well.

If we will have such company I will order chips and sale boards locally. In 4-5 month we can have boards available locally. Also Avalon provide chip for testing purpose, so testing can be completed before chips arrive to India. I own private limited company which can do importation of chips and execute manufacturing contract for boards.

Now? Probably by Christmas if you're lucky, I'd wager.  

What  about  sparta 6 chips , can  be locally be  acquired,  and lot  of  companies   working  with that . might be a bit  slow and  consume  a bit more  power, but  dont have to  go through the hassle  of   customs.   

I can buy batch of Avalon chips from Avalon 10000 chips delivery in 10 weeks in average. What is missing a company which can make boards in India. Try to find such company who can design and make boards for 10 - 20 chips per board and USB pen drives with one chip as well.

If we will have such company I will order chips and sale boards locally. In 4-5 month we can have boards available locally. Also Avalon provide chip for testing purpose, so testing can be completed before chips arrive to India. I own private limited company which can do importation of chips and execute manufacturing contract for boards.