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Title: Question regarding FPGA boards Post by: Oninaig on July 05, 2013, 10:13:45 PM I recent bought a Diligent Basys 2 board and I am a little lost as to how to set it up for mining. All of the guides and open source projects I have come across seem to support every board except the one I am using (http://www.digilentinc.com/Data/Products/BASYS2/Basys2_rm.pdf).
My question is, what type of board is this in the first place? I have read through the manual, and it doesn't mention whether it is a MMQ, BFL, etc type of board (this may seem like a stupid question). I suppose thats the first problem I need to solve before going any further. Title: Re: Question regarding FPGA boards Post by: J35st3r on July 06, 2013, 07:42:55 AM My question is, what type of board is this in the first place? I have read through the manual, and it doesn't mention whether it is a MMQ, BFL, etc type of board (this may seem like a stupid question). I suppose thats the first problem I need to solve before going any further. Its a development board (NOT a bitcoin miner). You'll have to program it yourself. See https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=9047.0 The reason there is little support for mining on this board is because its almost totally unsuitable, its far too small a device. That is not to say that its impossible to mine on that board, just that there will be very little point. Sorry to bear bad news :( PS If you want to have a go, start with https://github.com/fpgaminer/Open-Source-FPGA-Bitcoin-Miner/tree/master/projects/Verilog_Xilinx_Port , set the CONFIG_LOG_LOOP2 parameter to the maximum of 5 to minimise the device utilisation and make whatever changes are needed to port the code to the Baysis2 platform (I can't help with that, sorry). |