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Good luck on your project of reprogramming ASICs
Topic: Scrypt ASIC - page 2. (Read 1887 times)
No offence taken, but I could still try to reprogram these to talk to the other components or even hire someone to. Also these chips are tiny, 7.5 x7.5 (mm) meaning that you could put tons of these onto a circuit board so you can defeat the 2 processor problem.
This will be my last shot at this:
It's literally not possible. You can't re-program them. They're formed in silicon to do only one thing: apply the SHA256 algorithm to provided data. And the data has to match pretty closely the expected template.
It can't even do basic math like 1+1 = 2.
This is not a function of the motherboard or other accessories mounted around it. There's not logic units or reprogrammable anything, you couldn't use it as a processor to make an ipad or a tablet or a laptop or a scrypt miner.
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?Do you know what an ASIC is? It is an APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT.
The key phrase there is APPLICATION SPECIFIC.
Do you know what application the ASICs currently produced for Bitcoin mining are specific to? SHA-256 hashing. That's it. Nothing more, nothing less. They can't do general purpose calculations, they can't run generic code, they can only do SHA-256 hashing.
Do you know what Litecoin uses? If you think SHA-256 you'd be wrong. It uses scrypt, a COMPLETELY different mechanism. If you hope to use a SHA-256 chip to generate an scrypt hash you're sorely mistaken. What you want to do is IMPOSSIBLE.
Someone in this thread asked if you'd searched and read - your lack of understanding as to what an ASIC is indicates that you didn't read enough.
This shows a profound misunderstanding of what these chips are. I don't mean that as an insult, I'm just laying it out there.
No offence taken, but I could still try to reprogram these to talk to the other components or even hire someone to. Also these chips are tiny, 7.5 x7.5 (mm) meaning that you could put tons of these onto a circuit board so you can defeat the 2 processor problem.
These are not FPGAs that you can reprogram. These do one thing and one thing only: double SHA algorithm.
i ordered a pre-order for batch 1 from bitbars.net . i know it's a long shot but heck if it comes threw it will be badAZZ
ROFL, that "ASIC" was the most obvious scam I've seen posted to these forums. "Long shot" is very optimistic.
i ordered a pre-order for batch 1 from bitbars.net . i know it's a long shot but heck if it comes threw it will be badAZZ
...4 Gigahash/s SHA256 and theoretically 4 Megahash/s for Scrypt...
This is where you lost it, and probably why you're not getting many replies.
This shows a profound misunderstanding of what these chips are. I don't mean that as an insult, I'm just laying it out there.
These are not general computing devices, and in theory or in practice they are literally not capable of ever producing a scrypt hash.
You might consider pursuing this project with bulk ATI processors, I've been told they're nearly ideal for the task of hashing scrypt.
Here's someone giving me a very detailed lecture on the ins and outs of the current tech: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2580579
ASIC chips designed to mine bitcoins will never mine scrypt-based coins. It's not a problem of RAM, the problem is the chips spit out SHA hashes which are not compatible with scrypt.
Seems like an interesting venture although I'm very highly skeptical about this working or going anywhere. Send me a PM when things are in motion, I'll be interested in buying your first batch that comes out.
You might want to use the search function and find out that half the threads on this whole forum are about Scrypt ASICs.
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