Swedish ASIC miner company kncminer.com - page 828.

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OKAY...Found something... although I think there's more somewhere...

could be interpreted a couple ways... but there it is...

aah, found more...

Quote from: Bitcoinorama on November 28, 2013, 11:09:57 AM

Quote from: sbfree on November 28, 2013, 11:06:36 AM

Quote from: Bitcoinorama on November 28, 2013, 11:03:50 AM

An October Board looks like the first board below and uses this firmware link:

'Tuning' is for Tuning Suite. Did I mention this is just for October boxes?

https://www.kncminer.com/userfiles/file/kncminer-0.99-tune.bin

A November board looks like this second board, and uses this firmware link:

https://www.kncminer.com/userfiles/file/kncminer-0.99-E.bin

'E' is for Ericsson. No need to update the November boxes yet, but someone earlier decided to flash Oct firmware on his Nov box, so this is what he needs to fix.(indeed may be just firmware.. I'd ask first...ewik)

DO NOT mix them up. It will be futile, and the miner will assimilate you, assimilation voids all warranty and you don't want to assimilated before the weekend do you??Love that ditty, albeit a bit scary... hehe

Live long and prosper...

Orama, I notice in the statement it says only for miners having problems.....would you say a good working unit could be made to run better with this suite also??

You can't harm, but you won't et increased performance from a perfectly working board...(tuning suite)

Judging from that line looks okay....
May be just referring to firmware... like "Bogart" said.. but looked relevant...

but with that said...looks like a Nov board may run in an oct unit......but run like an october...slower.
and the highlighted news clip line mentions board revisions making them incompatible.. so I'm really not sure.
If someone could report back any experience with this... I'd appreciate it.....

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Quote from: Phoenix1969 on December 17, 2013, 03:06:10 PM

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Quote from: Phoenix1969 on December 17, 2013, 02:51:04 PM

Quote from: Bogart on December 17, 2013, 02:22:01 PM

Quote from: arlekyn13 on December 17, 2013, 10:05:53 AM

Anyone knows if the Oct controller board is compatible with Nov type ASIC boards?

It is. The only difference is the firmware. Flash 0.99-E onto it and you should be all set.

Weren't we warned not to try that?

I'm sure they have re-designed the pcb asic board for nov miners, dunno if they did the same for the main controller board.

Yeah...I'm pretty sure I read it may "Brick" your miner somewhere, and that they're not compatible....
I could be wrong tho... but I'm pretty sure that was posted

Pretty sure I saw the same, but I can't recall if it were for control board, BBB, or both..

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Quote from: sickpig on December 17, 2013, 02:56:38 PM

Quote from: Phoenix1969 on December 17, 2013, 02:51:04 PM

Quote from: Bogart on December 17, 2013, 02:22:01 PM

Quote from: arlekyn13 on December 17, 2013, 10:05:53 AM

Anyone knows if the Oct controller board is compatible with Nov type ASIC boards?

It is. The only difference is the firmware. Flash 0.99-E onto it and you should be all set.

Weren't we warned not to try that?

I'm sure they have re-designed the pcb asic board for nov miners, dunno if they did the same for the main controller board.

Yeah...I'm pretty sure I read it may "Brick" your miner somewhere, and that they're not compatible....
I could be wrong tho... but I'm pretty sure that was posted

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Quote from: Phoenix1969 on December 17, 2013, 02:51:04 PM

Quote from: Bogart on December 17, 2013, 02:22:01 PM

Quote from: arlekyn13 on December 17, 2013, 10:05:53 AM

Anyone knows if the Oct controller board is compatible with Nov type ASIC boards?

It is. The only difference is the firmware. Flash 0.99-E onto it and you should be all set.

Weren't we warned not to try that?

I'm sure they have re-designed the pcb asic board for nov miners, dunno if they did the same for the main controller board.

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Quote from: Bogart on December 17, 2013, 02:22:01 PM

Quote from: arlekyn13 on December 17, 2013, 10:05:53 AM

Anyone knows if the Oct controller board is compatible with Nov type ASIC boards?

It is. The only difference is the firmware. Flash 0.99-E onto it and you should be all set.

Weren't we warned not to try that?

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Quote from: Bogart on December 17, 2013, 02:22:01 PM

Quote from: arlekyn13 on December 17, 2013, 10:05:53 AM

Anyone knows if the Oct controller board is compatible with Nov type ASIC boards?

It is. The only difference is the firmware. Flash 0.99-E onto it and you should be all set.

Pay attention as of now you can't mix october with nov boards on the same controller board

edit: fix a thinko Tongue

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Quote from: Syke on December 17, 2013, 01:13:15 PM

Quote from: Biffa on December 17, 2013, 12:47:54 PM

TSMC has already been making 20nm FPGA's in bulk for Xilinx since early November

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20nm samples available just in time for Christmas!

Samples. You call that "in bulk"?

Lol true bad choice of word on my part, but also some of the article is journalistic interpretation of the press release.

Plus a sample run for Xilinux is probably equivalent to KnCs entire 2013/2014 output

TSMC already announced 10's of designs in October ready for production in q1 who is to say that KnC is not one of them? Asics and fpgas are the ideal tech to prove the platform.

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Quote from: Phoenix1969 on December 17, 2013, 12:15:34 PM

Quote from: bobsag3 on December 17, 2013, 12:13:53 PM

Quote from: soy on December 17, 2013, 07:30:05 AM

Quote from: bobsag3 on December 16, 2013, 08:50:10 PM

So I have one november jupiter that refuses to stay on. Tried each individual ASIC separately, no dice, tried swapping the 1500w EVGA with a 860W Corsair, corsair didnt even turn it on (fans spun up but BBB no lights). Anyone got any ideas?

I'd guess there's a ribbon cable plugged backwards to the controller board possible or faulty cabling to the BBB.

Checked all the cables, ribbon and PCiE- no dice.

Have you tried swapping BBB's with another unit?
Auto-Salvage style testing..... swap parts 'till you find it...

I'm off to pick up my new-used '05 accord from BTC earnings..... Yipppeeeeeee!
(BTC trading on Bitstamp)

My Merc with upgrade module is going to pay for today's root canal.

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Quote from: bobsag3 on December 17, 2013, 12:13:53 PM

Quote from: soy on December 17, 2013, 07:30:05 AM

Quote from: bobsag3 on December 16, 2013, 08:50:10 PM

So I have one november jupiter that refuses to stay on. Tried each individual ASIC separately, no dice, tried swapping the 1500w EVGA with a 860W Corsair, corsair didnt even turn it on (fans spun up but BBB no lights). Anyone got any ideas?

I'd guess there's a ribbon cable plugged backwards to the controller board possible or faulty cabling to the BBB.

Checked all the cables, ribbon and PCiE- no dice.

Okay, wrote that after returning from the dentist and the numbness is now almost gone. Here's what I would do: I'd disconnect all ASIC modules and only fire up the BBB and that without ribbon cables. I'd look for the front fans running. I'd look for the bright white light and both the red and green LEDs lit, I'd look for lights on the RJ45 ethernet socket, then I'd look for the red LED to go out and the green stay on indicating you have a connection. Log in to the miner web page.

If you can get those things all well and good. Get that first. If you can't, then I'd track down my 5 volts. Get some information on the Beagle Board Black and find where you can measure the 5v on the board. Check that there isn't a crack in the solder at the controller board 4 pin molex connector. Just remembered, I had an iffy connection at the 4 pin, squeezed the barrels a little for better grasp of the pins and fewer glitches.

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Quote from: Bogart on December 17, 2013, 02:15:45 PM

Quote from: xstr8guy on December 17, 2013, 12:18:37 AM

Quote from: Bogart on December 17, 2013, 12:14:03 AM

Quote from: opentoe on December 16, 2013, 07:24:26 PM

Anyone have an inside scoop of when KNC will possibly list Jupiters? It will be Christmas in 11 days, then New Year's so anything to do with shipping will be delayed or who knows what. Are they thinking of releasing maybe this week, the next? I'm probably positive someone must have called them to ask. And most likely wouldn't post that "secret" info here.

Given their stated reasoning for releasing another batch, I would expect them to wait until a competitor actually ships something.

HashFast has to be damn close by now. Right?

On the other hand, BitMain is shipping right now. They shipped 54TH/s out their door yesterday/today. My units are scheduled for delivery tomorrow.

True, but the MitMain units appear to be quite overpriced. They earn ~.1 BTC per day at current difficulty and cost 4.25 BTC, so good luck getting your investment back in BTC.

Also, BitMain hasn't reduced the price of their group buys as the difficulty keeps going up, so early buyers will probably earn ROI, but late buyers at 4.25 BTC will not.

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Quote from: arlekyn13 on December 17, 2013, 10:05:53 AM

Anyone knows if the Oct controller board is compatible with Nov type ASIC boards?

It is. The only difference is the firmware. Flash 0.99-E onto it and you should be all set.

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Quote from: kendog77 on December 17, 2013, 02:10:22 PM

Quote from: Phoenix1969 on December 17, 2013, 12:13:12 PM

Quote from: Syke on December 16, 2013, 06:42:56 PM

Quote from: RickJamesBTC on December 16, 2013, 06:03:34 PM

What kind of nonsense are you talking? A business that charges what the market will bear for their products is not dishonest. Charging far less than people are willing to pay is called STUPID. If they were priced too high, people wouldn't buy them and the price would go down.

Exactly. KnC did good on the Jupiters, etc. But they're stepping into fraud territory by implying a Q1 ship date for Neptune when there's simply no chance of that happening.

You do realize they started 20nm about three months ago?... and they said Q1/Q2.
Plenty of cushion IMHO

Agreed, and Knc already said that they will ship their 20 nm devices in March of 2014 (see the news update below), so that was their plan all along. I think they changed the Neptune delivery date to Q1/Q2 just to be safe, but I'm cautiously optimistic that they will hit a late Feburary / early March delivery date...

https://www.kncminer.com/news/news-24

https://www.kncminer.com/news/news-73

If we do have more items to place in the shop for our 28nm range, we will announce this via one of our newsletters which will contain the time and date that they will go on sale. So keep some coins handy as we expect them to go quick.

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Quote from: kendog77 on December 17, 2013, 02:10:22 PM

Quote from: Phoenix1969 on December 17, 2013, 12:13:12 PM

Quote from: Syke on December 16, 2013, 06:42:56 PM

Quote from: RickJamesBTC on December 16, 2013, 06:03:34 PM

What kind of nonsense are you talking? A business that charges what the market will bear for their products is not dishonest. Charging far less than people are willing to pay is called STUPID. If they were priced too high, people wouldn't buy them and the price would go down.

Exactly. KnC did good on the Jupiters, etc. But they're stepping into fraud territory by implying a Q1 ship date for Neptune when there's simply no chance of that happening.

You do realize they started 20nm about three months ago?... and they said Q1/Q2.
Plenty of cushion IMHO

Agreed, and Knc already said that they will ship their 20 nm devices in March of 2014 (see the news update below), so that was their plan all along. I think they changed the Neptune delivery date to Q1/Q2 just to be safe, but I'm cautiously optimistic that they will hit a late Feburary / early March delivery date...
https://www.kncminer.com/news/news-24

I think that is an optimistic way to look at it. They cannot predict what problems and component supply problems they might have. You should assume June 15 and leave room to be surprised if it comes sooner.

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Quote from: xstr8guy on December 17, 2013, 12:18:37 AM

Quote from: Bogart on December 17, 2013, 12:14:03 AM

Quote from: opentoe on December 16, 2013, 07:24:26 PM

Anyone have an inside scoop of when KNC will possibly list Jupiters? It will be Christmas in 11 days, then New Year's so anything to do with shipping will be delayed or who knows what. Are they thinking of releasing maybe this week, the next? I'm probably positive someone must have called them to ask. And most likely wouldn't post that "secret" info here.

Given their stated reasoning for releasing another batch, I would expect them to wait until a competitor actually ships something.

HashFast has to be damn close by now. Right?

On the other hand, BitMain is shipping right now. They shipped 54TH/s out their door yesterday/today. My units are scheduled for delivery tomorrow.

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Quote from: Phoenix1969 on December 17, 2013, 12:13:12 PM

Quote from: Syke on December 16, 2013, 06:42:56 PM

Quote from: RickJamesBTC on December 16, 2013, 06:03:34 PM

What kind of nonsense are you talking? A business that charges what the market will bear for their products is not dishonest. Charging far less than people are willing to pay is called STUPID. If they were priced too high, people wouldn't buy them and the price would go down.

Exactly. KnC did good on the Jupiters, etc. But they're stepping into fraud territory by implying a Q1 ship date for Neptune when there's simply no chance of that happening.

You do realize they started 20nm about three months ago?... and they said Q1/Q2.
Plenty of cushion IMHO

Agreed, and Knc already said that they will ship their 20 nm devices in March of 2014 (see the news update below), so that was their plan all along. I think they changed the Neptune delivery date to Q1/Q2 just to be safe, but I'm cautiously optimistic that they will hit a late Feburary / early March delivery date...

https://www.kncminer.com/news/news-24

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Quote from: merv77 on December 17, 2013, 12:45:06 PM

and check this one from 'Business Insider Australia' some KnC news Shocked

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/knc-sells-nearly-28-million-neptunes-2013-12#ixzz2nkWDq41P

next KNC slogan... "we made 8 million dollars in 24 hours"
got to be some record broken, well for bitcoin manufacturers at least

That's not really, like, "news".. it's just simple math we did many pages back.

I was hoping they had some details of something new in there.

The Neptunes no where approach $10k in cost to manufacture. A fraction of that at absolute best.

Shovel-making and shovel-sales are lucrative right now.

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Quote from: Biffa on December 17, 2013, 12:47:54 PM

TSMC has already been making 20nm FPGA's in bulk for Xilinx since early November

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20nm samples available just in time for Christmas!

Samples. You call that "in bulk"?

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Quote from: Biffa on December 17, 2013, 12:47:54 PM

Quote from: Syke on December 17, 2013, 12:22:08 PM

Quote from: Phoenix1969 on December 17, 2013, 12:13:12 PM

You do realize they started 20nm about three months ago?... and they said Q1/Q2.
Plenty of cushion IMHO

Doesn't matter if they started 10 years ago. A huge limitation to actually meeting such a date is TSMC's ability to deliver. They haven't yet ramped up 20nm production! TSMC has only taped-out a handful of 20nm designs so far. TSMC production is going to be very limited in Q1. If TSMC does get in a crunch, who are they going to deliver wafers to first, Apple or KnC?

You have to realise that compared to Apple's chips, GPU's from AMD and Nvidia & CPU's that ASIC's and FPGA's are very simple devices, and SHA256 ASIC's are simpler than most. TSMC has already been making 20nm FPGA's in bulk for Xilinx since early November, Xilinx are actually planning to tape out 16nm in Q1 2014 with TSMC. And TSMC are actually ahead of the game. See: https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/content/2927-xilinx-begins-shipping-tsmc-20nm-fpgas.html

They use AllChip, and AST... Not sure How TSMC fits in...?
Just a comparison? Good stuff. Altera-TSMC seem to have a relationship...

I'm totally late picking up my car... lol.. Catch y'all laterz

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Quote from: Syke on December 17, 2013, 12:22:08 PM

Quote from: Phoenix1969 on December 17, 2013, 12:13:12 PM

You do realize they started 20nm about three months ago?... and they said Q1/Q2.
Plenty of cushion IMHO

Doesn't matter if they started 10 years ago. A huge limitation to actually meeting such a date is TSMC's ability to deliver. They haven't yet ramped up 20nm production! TSMC has only taped-out a handful of 20nm designs so far. TSMC production is going to be very limited in Q1. If TSMC does get in a crunch, who are they going to deliver wafers to first, Apple or KnC?

You have to realise that compared to Apple's chips, GPU's from AMD and Nvidia & CPU's that ASIC's and FPGA's are very simple devices, and SHA256 ASIC's are simpler than most. TSMC has already been making 20nm FPGA's in bulk for Xilinx since early November, Xilinx are actually planning to tape out 16nm in Q1 2014 with TSMC. And TSMC are actually ahead of the game. See: https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/content/2927-xilinx-begins-shipping-tsmc-20nm-fpgas.html

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and check this one from 'Business Insider Australia' some KnC news Shocked

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/knc-sells-nearly-28-million-neptunes-2013-12#ixzz2nkWDq41P

next KNC slogan... "we made 8 million dollars in 24 hours"
got to be some record broken, well for bitcoin manufacturers at least

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