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Title: AVID Mojo SDI FPGA Post by: Zeek_W on October 16, 2012, 06:00:59 AM I just scored a few of these from the 'e-waste' room of my company as they are no longer being used - I know they are a FPGA, just not sure what exactly. I'll rip it apart tonight when I get home and see what the chip is and if it can be altered for mining use.
http://www.sinemedia.com/images/200910/1256165294334989260.jpg Title: Re: AVID Mojo SDI FPGA Post by: pieppiep on October 16, 2012, 06:41:47 AM This one? http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/435762-REG/Avid_7010_20000_01_Mojo_SDI_Portable.html
Look expensive, but I don't know if it is the same device version. Some video editing device... I'm following this topic :) Title: Re: AVID Mojo SDI FPGA Post by: Zeek_W on October 16, 2012, 06:43:30 AM Yep it definately is :)
I just cant wait til work sends these beasts to the waste room: http://i1.creativecow.net/u/123301/nitris_dx.jpg Title: Re: AVID Mojo SDI FPGA Post by: Zeek_W on October 16, 2012, 08:37:41 AM Well, I'm home and have teared the mojo SDi down:
https://i.imgur.com/bhhec.jpg Turns out it is a Cyclone 2 EP2C35F484C6N :( - the stock powersully is 9VDC and Quote ...68,416 logic elements (LEs) and provide up to 622 usable I/O pins and up to 1.1 Mbits of embedded memory. Cyclone II FPGAs are manufactured on 300-mm wafers using TSMC's 90-nm low-k dielectric process. https://i.imgur.com/xvUnG.jpg I see some potentials for JTAG programming in the following: http://imgur.com/MWekK.jpg The most likely candidate due to proximity to the FPGA chip Some others - although I don't think so: http://imgur.com/u2GbH.jpg http://imgur.com/kobBE.jpg https://i.imgur.com/VyvVM.jpg No idea what this switch does. Seeing how the bigger Altera EP4CE115C7 only makes 100MH/s I don't think this thing would be profitable unfortunately. Maybe eBay the whole unit for it's original purpose. Title: Re: AVID Mojo SDI FPGA Post by: simon66 on October 17, 2012, 01:26:06 AM How many of these did you get your hands on?
Title: Re: AVID Mojo SDI FPGA Post by: Zeek_W on October 17, 2012, 01:34:36 AM How many of these did you get your hands on? I got 3 of them. One I will be using for it's original purpose though. Well, I will if I ever do SD rez videos lol. I mainly use the Nitris DX's these days Title: Re: AVID Mojo SDI FPGA Post by: abeaulieu on October 17, 2012, 01:56:46 AM Wow quite the find. I would sell those suckers, forget mining on them. The value is in it's application and the way they implemented the FPGA.
Title: Re: AVID Mojo SDI FPGA Post by: Zeek_W on October 17, 2012, 02:07:55 AM Wow quite the find. I would sell those suckers, forget mining on them. The value is in it's application and the way they implemented the FPGA. yeah I just checked ebay but there aren't any completed items that sold - and about 7 already relisted. Might try and find someone local. I was originally gotta lift the FPGA off the board and make new board - but definately not worth the time and effort. Selling them for their use then buy more ASICs/FPGAs is the way to go. Sorry if this thread was a downer and somewhat irrelivant to the usual discussion/arguing/scam accusing that custom hardware has devolved to of late. :P Title: Re: AVID Mojo SDI FPGA Post by: pieppiep on October 17, 2012, 05:07:26 AM No downer for me. Still very interesting to see that such a little fpga can do so much with the right bitstreams.
It still is a nice piece of technology :) Title: Re: AVID Mojo SDI FPGA Post by: abeaulieu on October 17, 2012, 12:38:24 PM No downer for me. Still very interesting to see that such a little fpga can do so much with the right bitstreams. It still is a nice piece of technology :) Well I would say sell these expensive guys and buy a couple nice eval boards then. Depending on what version of Cyclone 2 you want they're only $150-200: http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?No=83 P.S. These are a nice little eval board for people new to FPGAs. I've used the DE2 to start learning it was quite a breeze, especially with the example projects in Quartus. |
