Topic: X11 FPGA is here?: Betarigs Mining rig #1713 3x Phaethon PCI-E FPGA board (Read 9128 times)

To get a hashrate of 4Mh/s you'd need a 10,000$ device, that's just the cost of the FPGA. You still need to design and place it on a board.

 

Nobody competent is going to design this guy a X11 FPGA for $1-5K LOL. And its not a job for C, its a job for VHDL or Verilog.

Anybody with the knowledge and experience to do this will keep it for themselves. And they won't be yakking about it on the internet.

indeed, no proof but very strong indication what's out there

just stumbled over this site on a quick shot
it's dated back in may and there are several seriously looking offers for this demand

it's for sure not the only request + offers you will find in the internet (and consider coders doing this for their own profit not telling anyone)
if only one deal took place, there are X11 FPGAs

sorry  
But this isn't a proof of anything.
Asking for someone to code something is entirely different from having the code and hardware working.

and the funny thing is that they are asking for c++ code for fpga

There are X11 FPGAs running in the wild.

http://www.getacoder.com/projects/fpga%20miner%20for%20x_164338.html

yeah indeed gtfo with your URO scam coin

why put this shit here. no1 cares as this is a thread about X11 FPGA not URO....

Is that similar to 'Brace For Impact' ?

~L)L~

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If you look at the number of FPGA logical elements needed to implement each of the X11 algorithms ( see the Athena source code link posted earlier ) and then look at the number of LE's available on all the affordable Xilinx and Altera FPGA devices you'll notice that it'd be hard to fit more than one or two of the unrolled X11 algorithms into a single FPGA. So you'd have to assume that any X11 FPGA implementation would take multiple FPGAs and require software coordination between them to implement the X11 suite. Additionally, because of the chained nature of the X11 algorithm, you'd be performing these 11 algorithms in series, so the speed of the device would be limited to the speed of the slowest algorithm. If you refer again to the Athena source code, you'll see some performance metrics for the various implementations.

These two observations should allow you to assess the relative cost and performance of a hypothetical X11 FPGA implementation.
My takeaway when I looked at this problem is that even though source code for the different algorithms exists in the pubic domain, a full implementation of the X11 suite in a multi-fpga PCI-e based system using commercially available prototyping boards  ( for example, http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?Language=English&CategoryNo=205&No=816 or http://www.xilinx.com/products/boards-and-kits/EK-S6-SP605-G.htm ) would be fairly expensive and not blazingly fast.

On the other hand, if you were prepared to implement a custom board with the right mix of inexpensive Xilinx or Altera FPGAs instead of using commercially available development kits and manufacture in quantity so you could get good prices on the FPGA components, then it might be worthwhile.

Thats my take away. YMMV.

yeah... some pics would be nice.
They know how to program fpga but aren't able to take a picture... 
(and this has been going for month...)

Don't think that FPGA have too much power as for now.
We have only 8 boards @28MH/s.  

550 GH/s on X11 MultiWalletCoin

X11 fpga working now?
Testing?

I just got 10 MH/s worth of power... wonder how fast the new asics will be. Right now I'm getting pretty nice returns.

there is no ROI anymore for GPU

True , and with more and more pump n dump coins in the market , ROI on GPU is getting even more difficult.

How much would one of these 280W 28Mhs FPGA boards cost?

Well, maybe.  But I guess that depends on what all you are calling "scam coins".  Some people would argue that there are no real coins left to GPU mine.  Others would say new altcoins help GPU miners stay in business.  It's the blessing and curse of the free market I suppose...


Certainly has people taking note...

https://www.betarigs.com/rig/8115
It seems like progress is not standing still.
28 MH/s per board already.