beyond what's possible with general-purpose SHA256 cores.
In Mbps terms, my design is around 159,744 Mbps [2 SHA256 cores * 512 bits per hash * 156 MH/s].
That 2041Mbps core is 2041/(512*2)= 1.99MH/s. You could fit maybe 30-50 of them in 6s150.
-rph
great reply, thanks!
as I wrote, I was not sure if I understood that correctly, obviously I have not.
I don't doubt the ability of the bitcoin community, in fact I have entered this field with understanding that there will be very low (if any) level of commercial support into supporting the Bitcoin for some time, and the community of enthusiast must therefore support themselves with indigenous know-how.
And I did not thought for a second that the commercial outlets are more professional than the community.
Although I have build number of successfully business in the past, my roots are in hobby level experimentation (I am a microelectronics engineers) and not the formal R&D.
So I appreciate the long nights a self-motivated and thought person spends tackling an impossible to solve problem, where the commercial operations spend more of their day-times planing their time rather than productively solving the problem at hand.
rph, my hat goes off to you (and the others who work hard moving the FPGA projects forward)
cheers!