Topic: Custom FPGA Board for Sale! - page 4. (Read 91606 times)

OMG it's so cute!!  I can't wait!!

 

Good job, please do share with the community what you've done to make it work. I'm sure it'll be an interesting read at least.

You total legend!!    and 100 MH/s no less. Sweeeeeeet. 

Yeah, "hot-swapping" should be fine.

Oh yeah! I forgot to mention. DON'T LET THE SMOKE OUT! These gizmo's really work better if you keep the smoke inside of them.

One question: is it safe to plug in/out the power plug while the PSU is on? I'd really hate to have to power off my system for this (my X5000 currently runs on it's own PSU but I want to switch to the one used by my wall-pc)

UPDATE5 Aug 31st 16:53 - After initial disappointment that I might have to use windows, I got the X5000 to work on LINUX (see above post with pic)

Looks awesome, right. Green LED and all It get's better:


YESSSS!

I got it working, on LINUX! fucking hell yea!

Li, newMeat, should I write up a little linux guide. It's not been trivial ^^

EDIT: changed image to include eligius screenshot of hashrate

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.472048

Yes exactly that.  Something very exciting to invest in.

you mean this (see below)

You should put your company on the GLBSE and distribute shares to raise funds.  I'm sure alot of investors will support you.  I had no idea people were doing such things, I must visit this forum more often.
 

Where did you hear that?

Sounds like their parts aren't available from retail distributors yet (nor is there any timeline for that to happen).

Hmm, [mumbling, cig in mouth], just let me get this, .... power ... hmgrbl ... plug ... which way w.. BRATZL BRUTZ ZAPPP

Go bravely Molecular, you pioneer.  Just remember that the whole bitcoin world is watching you and counting on those trembling hands.

Feel safer now?   

UPDATE4 Aug 30th 13:30 - Received package containing FPGA miner "built with care". Also received Platform Cable same day

now what? I'm afraid!

We started a new thread for details about the next generation FPGA boards (the X6000/X6500s):

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/x6500-custom-fpga-miner-40058

This will hopefully be the best place to look for updated information on these boards in the future (and keep it separate from the X5000 information).

The X6000 and X6500 boards will not require an ISE installation at all. I am writing the software to control these latest boards, and it will be very light weight.

It most certainly does. In fact, there are many companies that can take an FPGA design and convert it to ASIC.

  Egad!! I just looked at that software from Xilinx it's 4.62 Gig. Good grief, what is all that code for? It says it's a design suite. Is that really necessary to run the mining environment for the end user? I thought the idea of a FGPA was that it does in hardware what would otherwise have to implemented in software.

I'm still not convinced that I couldn't get away with running whatever software is needed remotely, over a network connection. Why can't a WiFi / Ethernet link support the FPGA board with software being run remotely? Assuming we have serial interfacing on both devices, the need for a dedicated CPU/memory/board should be eliminated - well, I imagine, at least. I want to connect these units over a VPN/WAN, so although they are stand alone (physically), server support and remote process serving should not be an issue. As far as I'm concerned the software could be deployed in a virtual appliance. In fact, that would be all the better for data center management (upgrades, security etc.). The end user environment IMHO, should be as simple and abstracted from system management as possible. It should also avoid physical on site maintenance of individual units at individual locations. So I fully intend to leverage cloud based solutions and virtualize whatever is possible.

Also, I forgot to inquire. Would this FGPA miner afford any advantage towards R&D of an asic based solution? Is there any/much benefit of having a good FGPA based design to leverage a future asic device? Just out of curiosity.