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Does anyone have any knowledge, Or knows where to start with writing the machine language for ASIC's to be able mine. Essentially what i am looking to do is a DIY mini ant miner.

Any links, Or how-to's are appreciated.

All the software for miners and pools is open source.  Download it and study.

There is no 'writing machine language for ASICs'. The logic structures are 'hard wired' so to speak into the layout of the dies. There is no programming possible. Only a FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) is able to be programmed with a fixed logic structure that simulates the hard coding an ASIC uses. Even then they are still far slower than an ASIC.

Got a strong Computer Science background? You will need one for digging in this deep...

If you mean writing micro controller code to talk to the ASICs - follow vrobb's suggestion.

So essentially, The engineers behind the ant miners designed all of the XOR logic behind the asics?

 I have looked for said material and have returned nothing.. Maybe i am just not looking in the right areas.

And yes, I Have a little bit of a background in computer science. Just trying to learn as much about this stuff as possible.

At a high level, ASIC would be a hardware implementation of SHA-256 hashing algo. Someone please correct me if I am wrong.

Something like this? https://github.com/secworks/sha256 or this? http://async.org.uk/tech-reports/NCL-EECE-MSD-TR-2011-170.pdf

I just googled for it. I have no idea about the suitability of the links I just gave.

I have used this to try to understand the hashing algo.
https://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/sha256.html

Actually that Newcastle link is a very good one and spot-on as an introduction to why ASIC solutions are so bloody much faster vs using normal CPU's and math co-porcessors (aka GPU's).