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https://forums.butterflylabs.com/monarch-discussion/7827-2014-feb-05-monarch-discussion-2.htmlOriginally posted by BFL_Josh at 02-05-2014, 12:11 PMMost subsystems (State, IO, frequency control, counters, etc) on the chip have been tested and passed. The engine tests are still ongoing. The test software was returning unexpected results which turned out to be a bug in the testing software and has been (and is being) rewritten from scratch, so testing of the engines is taking a little longer than expected. The current estimation is that we should be done testing the chip in the next few days. In the meantime, the packaged chips should be on their way to the testing facility, though I don't yet have tracking numbers or confirmation of this. I will be working on getting that today or tomorrow hopefully.
Once the packaged chips arrive at the testing facility, they will wire it up to the test harness and start conducting the full power tests to see just how far we might be able to push the chips and what their real world power consumption is.
Originally posted by BFL_Josh at 02-08-2014, 12:16 AMNo show stoppers with chip bring up encountered so far, though it is taking longer than I would have liked. I keep expecting a call saying they are done, but there's nothing unexpected happening with the chip so far, so that's good. I was informed that our packaging facility will be shipping out the chips next week (not sure what day specifically yet) - I will be at the Berlin conference, but I'll try to keep things updated as best I can whilst traveling.
