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Topic: Ultra-Low-Cost DIY FPGA Miner - 175MH/s @ $1/MH - page 12. (Read 125898 times)

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Speculators paid me about $700 for the use of my 4 5830s in the past few months.   I'd be willing to throw some of that away on a similar project if only I thought I had the know-how.
legendary
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The anticipation is palpable.

agreed.....too bad all of my funds went towards gpus, I will have to wait for a while even after they are ready.
newbie
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Just a quick update - I've started work on a new multi-FPGA carrier design.
Time to stop messing around, and build something badass. Grin

-rph


The anticipation is palpable.
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Just a quick update - I've started work on a new multi-FPGA carrier design.
Time to stop messing around, and build something badass. Grin

-rph


something bad ass we can buy!
rph
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Just a quick update - I've started work on a new multi-FPGA carrier design.
Time to stop messing around, and build something badass. Grin

-rph
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on the real, if you get this working and can package it in some way to ship and plug and mine I will buy 5 right away, and more in the future.
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Got the carrier PCB!

http://bitcoinfpga.com/pix/s6fg484-carrier-1.jpg

It supports FPGA download & mining over micro-USB, with the on-board Cortex-M3.
No need for a $200 JTAG probe.

Most importantly.. it'll finally let me run the 6s150..

-rph


Man that looks awesome; I have been following this thread from the first post. I am researching everything I can about building some of these myself. I am majoring in Computer Programming, unfortunately I am still in Gen Ed classes and haven't got to the good stuff yet. You are my Mr. Miyagi rph!
rph
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Got the carrier PCB!



It supports FPGA download & mining over micro-USB, with the on-board ARM Cortex-M3.
No need for a $200 JTAG probe.

If all goes well it'll be running the 6s150 in a couple days.

And then The Cluster begins.

-rph
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Reading this.
rph
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My code is full-custom VHDL, based on some good ideas in the ztex Verilog (which might or might not be
a derived work of the fpgaminer code, which is probably derived from some random guy's C code, etc).
I made enhancements for 2 cycles per SHA256 stage, and major changes to efficiently roll the core,
on smaller devices such as 6s25.

TBH I'm undecided on releasing full source. But ArtForz, ztex, and I have publically discussed the 6s150
optimizations in the ztex thread, and I released a snippet showing my changes for 2-cycles-per-stage,
so the concepts + optimization strategies are already public.

-rph
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Got the 6s25 miner working! 11.25MH/s @ 180MHz

Wow, that is an amazing clock rate.  I understand that your code is based on the ztex miner with some changes to go from 128Mhz to 156Mhz+... any chance you'll release your changes?  I know you aren't required to...
rph
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Yeah, crazy, but it really works.  Grin

-rph
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We will stand and fight.
rph
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Keep in mind that sales prices for fully assembled/tested boards will be ~$100
over the raw BOM costs. For a 100 FPGA cluster, that is like $10k..

Assuming things go well, that $20 skillet is going to save me a lot of money.

-rph
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hell yea I would buy a load of these. I'm pretty good at soldering my self and probably make some extra $$ reselling premade ones.
rph
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I'm up to 19.5MH/s in 6s25 -2, after working on it over the weekend.
It's mining for btcguild right now, drawing around 1W.

My 6s150 design meets timing at 156MH/s in 6s150 -3, and should easily
overclock to 175MH/s (1MH/$ at Avnet qty1 pricing). Might even reach 200MH/s
assuming the boards/ power supplies/cooling can handle that and keep it cool..
That would really reduce the gap b/t FPGAs and ATI GPUs.

Stay tuned..

-rph
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If you are getting 11MH/s on a 6s25, what is that going to scale up to on a 6s150?
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It's all about the game, and how you play it
Wanted a video Tongue but that works just as well very impressed can't wait to see the 150 model running and hopefully buy some
rph
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It's been making money with the GPL'd mpbm code from TheSeven:



-rph
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It's all about the game, and how you play it
Got the 6s25 miner working! 11.25MH/s @ 180MHz using 35% of the device.
Not exactly fast, but it validates the SW and MCU<->FPGA interface in preparation for the 6s150.

-rph


Could you make a quick screen recording of that?
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