Topic: X6500 Custom FPGA Miner - page 2. (Read 220094 times)
Anyone have a good write up for getting either CGminer or BFGminer to work with the X6500 on windows or linux. I can only get them to work with MPBM atm.
many of us have ASIC, you mean many of us have asic erupter miner. some are waiting to receive their device and just a few have a real ASIC.. from altcoin, maybe nanocoin or wait until scrypt have been ported to lx150...
So now that difficulty is going through the roof and many of us either have ASICs or will soon have an ASIC, soon it will make little sense to continue mining BTC with x6500 boards. Once difficulty hits 100M then in my area a x6500 is only break even with electricity cost...
What do people plan on using their x6500 boards for? Are any specific alt coins compatible and worthwhile?
What do people plan on using their x6500 boards for? Are any specific alt coins compatible and worthwhile?
I am trying to get mpbm working with a X6500 rev3 to connect to slush's pool. I can't seem to do it.
Thoughts?
Thoughts?
Has anyone got this to work with BFGMiner's current version in Windows?
I see my X6500's installed in the control panel in Windows.
I can use MPBM to mine -- but that program is a little -- bulky.
When I run the bfgminer -D -d? -T command I do not see my devices listed.
I tried manually editing the .conf file and added :
"scan-serial" : [
"x6500:A5CCCUQY",
"x6500:A5XXX8IO"
],
But that doesn't work either.
The documentation on the x6500 in the readme file is a little lacking in getting the x6500's to work.
I see my X6500's installed in the control panel in Windows.
I can use MPBM to mine -- but that program is a little -- bulky.
When I run the bfgminer -D -d? -T command I do not see my devices listed.
I tried manually editing the .conf file and added :
"scan-serial" : [
"x6500:A5CCCUQY",
"x6500:A5XXX8IO"
],
But that doesn't work either.
The documentation on the x6500 in the readme file is a little lacking in getting the x6500's to work.
Make sure you have the latest WinUSB driver installed as per this post: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1330416
Has anyone got this to work with BFGMiner's current version in Windows?
I see my X6500's installed in the control panel in Windows.
I can use MPBM to mine -- but that program is a little -- bulky.
When I run the bfgminer -D -d? -T command I do not see my devices listed.
I tried manually editing the .conf file and added :
"scan-serial" : [
"x6500:A5CCCUQY",
"x6500:A5XXX8IO"
],
But that doesn't work either.
The documentation on the x6500 in the readme file is a little lacking in getting the x6500's to work.
I see my X6500's installed in the control panel in Windows.
I can use MPBM to mine -- but that program is a little -- bulky.
When I run the bfgminer -D -d? -T command I do not see my devices listed.
I tried manually editing the .conf file and added :
"scan-serial" : [
"x6500:A5CCCUQY",
"x6500:A5XXX8IO"
],
But that doesn't work either.
The documentation on the x6500 in the readme file is a little lacking in getting the x6500's to work.
Last I checked it was implemented in at least one of them.
Yes, BFGminer supports it. https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer/blob/bfgminer/README.FPGA
I have 3 X6500 sucessfully running with bfgminer.
But they are not recognized automatically.
I had to add this to the miner.conf file:
Code:
"scan-serial" : [
"x6500:AH00WTG2",
"x6500:AH00WO4E",
"x6500:AH00WUK4"
],
Last I checked it was implemented in at least one of them.
Yes, BFGminer supports it. https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer/blob/bfgminer/README.FPGA
How about selling the FPGA design + code? Then folks could "roll their own".
Yup...
Why not open source it... let the community pool it's resources and get these going.
Yes, I think this is a good idea and have been planning to talk with the others about it for a while now. Been too busy lately even to send around an email, so I certainly haven't looked at OSHW licenses and tried to figure all that out. Any experts on that stuff around here?
Any traction on this? I'd be interested.
-Jay
+1
How about selling the FPGA design + code? Then folks could "roll their own".
Yup...
Why not open source it... let the community pool it's resources and get these going.
Yes, I think this is a good idea and have been planning to talk with the others about it for a while now. Been too busy lately even to send around an email, so I certainly haven't looked at OSHW licenses and tried to figure all that out. Any experts on that stuff around here?
Any traction on this? I'd be interested.
-Jay
Last I checked it was implemented in at least one of them.
So I may have missed this somewhere, but was mining capability every implemented into CGMiner?
Yes, CGMiner or BFGMiner do not support X6500
Wait, it was NOT implemented, right? I am still using MPBM on all of mine.
So I may have missed this somewhere, but was mining capability every implemented into CGMiner?
Yes, CGMiner or BFGMiner do not support X6500
So I may have missed this somewhere, but was mining capability every implemented into CGMiner?
I was hoping to develop my own board for personal mining ... I was looking for all the Circuit component's values on the board with any other circuit diagram that is available with any of you guys. Can ANYONE PLEASE help me ? I sent a similar message to the OP. *Fingers Crossed*
Handy with a DMM and a soldering iron? Bid on the X6500 "reject" grab bag!
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/x6500-reject-grab-bag-auction-193153
Selling off a box of 16 X6500s that are in various states of not working, AS-IS.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/x6500-reject-grab-bag-auction-193153
Selling off a box of 16 X6500s that are in various states of not working, AS-IS.
Actually this is where FPGA's have an advantage. They're not useful for the average user, but for hobbyists and anyone with a lot of data can reprogram it for anything. That's why FPGA's are so versatile and exceed ASIC's. You can reprogram an FPGA to work for SHA256 or even scrypt or for doing dictionary generation.
i don't think you can use it for scrypt, at least not this boards without any memory, but i guess many people would like to see a scrypt firmeware
Also, the majority of people doesn't wanna dump 1500+ USD to an overpriced ASIC, they just wanna try the technology out of curiosity, which is where your board is perfect.
Isn't this an advertisement for GPU approach, not FPGA? At least with GPU, when your interest wanes, you can still play Solitaire.
Actually this is where FPGA's have an advantage. They're not useful for the average user, but for hobbyists and anyone with a lot of data can reprogram it for anything. That's why FPGA's are so versatile and exceed ASIC's. You can reprogram an FPGA to work for SHA256 or even scrypt or for doing dictionary generation.
It would be even more sexy if somehow your PCB's could be modified for the Avalon chips that are now on sale.
Many people do not understand that FPGA's are not the same as ASIC's, even though I know you're just dreaming of the possibility.
It would be even more sexy if somehow your PCB's could be modified for the Avalon chips that are now on sale.
I was under the impression that schematics are open sourced after visiting the website. However upon closer inspection I found those are only simplified schematics.
Is there any chance of you releasing the full schematic into the community?
Is there any chance of you releasing the full schematic into the community?
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