Topic: Cairnsmore1 - Quad XC6SLX150 Board - page 103. (Read 286370 times)

CRY, no shipment email, though i paid the "first board", not even in Spam.   

Good to hear Yohan,

Are those in developers program going to see the code behind the initial bitstream on these first ones, so they can try to improve upon it.
Or is it every developer for himself to try to get something working?

I don't have confirmation yet, so it be nice to take a look at and work on a bitstream I know at least works on these.

Yoahn after this initial shipment of a single board to 50 people when is the next shipment due? Also do you have performance numbers? thanks.
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Todays main significance was it was the first main ship that we have done and we expect to run a reasonable percentage of that every working day , except for August, from now until the end of September and maybe beyond. As such there is no batch shipment as such we just turned on the tap and we now leave it running for as long as is needed. There may be some minor hiccups due to component shortages and eventually it will tail off for whatever reason. Todays shipment was a little unusual in the sheer number of people getting boards and we didn't get all them out. Simple logistics got there. It takes about 10 minutes to enter an address and related data for a courier and that is a limiter on the number of shipments per day. However after the next couple of days of shipping we move into the shipping phase where are shipping several units together and the number of shipments falls.

On the units that shipped today they all have the 50MHz bitstream and the in-built programmer is working. We will be working on improving that over the weekend and through next week but as the build times are lengthy and often fail it may be a few days before we get the next jump in performance.

Just received an email to confirm my shipping address. hopefully it'll be here sometime next week mining away even at something like 400 MH/s 

the email I received stated there is a basic bitstream included as well as the mechanism to update that ourselves as they release new ones.

cheers

just got my shipping notification

is it now shipping with a bitstream, or are we programming one ourselves?

Sitting side-by-side, not stacking... I see no interconnects connected. Anyways, I'll be patient, don't want to interrupt shipping.

Are there any news about the stacking Kit?

This is a few pages back on stacking:


Yoahn after this initial shipment of a single board to 50 people when is the next shipment due? Also do you have performance numbers? thanks.

All customer boards will be Issue 1.1 or later.

This shipment will be issue 1.1?

I will try and deliver some more hardware porn later today after we get todays shipment out. It's going to be a bit busy today.

cheers mate

Sorry about that. If I found the correct entry you should a response now. It was entered on the pre-order but the response email somehow didn't get out.

+1

Still havnt recd a msg about my order delivery time, email'd pm'd etc.

Whats happening Yohan ?

kind regards

Need pics of stacking arrangement and interconnect cabling, stat. Need my fix of hardware pron, FPGA pictures thread does not delivar fast enough.

Our final early ship offer has gone out this morning. Anyone that had a June indication should have had one of these. If you think you should have had one check your spam box and if it's not there do contact us. From the end of next week we will be ship order balances in the order we received them. If you placed more than 1 order those orders will be available roughly on the schedule that was indicated to you. I think we are now on day 42 since we announced the concept and started work(do correct if I can't count, it does seem a lot longer) and I am pleased with the delivery of the design from our team.

We have taken the product a long way this week and we think that we are a few days away from showing at least a major percentage of it's potential. Building bitstreams is so much fun (not) but we will have more design team staff, and machines, available from next week with the Cairnsmore1 shipping to make that happen. We might also have a few surprises yet for our competitors but I would want to do an entire BFL so I will leave you to salivate over what that might be.

Oh heck I'm going to do a BFL and not tell you about it but it's entirely the answer to the meaning of life and boundless prosperity and we are probably never going to deliver it.

On a more serious note we have been doing some load tests on the board and the heatsink and fan combination, in the standard setup, is working extremely well. Some of the design features that we incorporated to deliver heat to the rear of the board are also working well. This will actually be of significant benefit in stacking arrangements either with fans in conventional fashion or push/pull side blow that will take air over the rear side. We also think a small rear heatsink could be of benefit there and we will actually try that out in the next few weeks. Rear heat extraction maybe also be a good way with water coolers but more on that after we do some more experiments. Don't expect this data for at least a few weeks.

Production wise we are moving out of the fairly hap hazard thing that is initial production week. We are still improving the processes and even the test equipment and that will be an ongoing process for a few weeks yet. Aligned with that should an increase in numbers of units delivered every week.

The way we test these is a test harness that is derived from CGminer but runs in isolated mode. So it sends in commands in the same and we check with the golden nonce that it all works.

Great news. The frequent updates are a welcome sight/read. Best of luck ramping up those core frequencies