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Economy => Computer hardware => Topic started by: mb300sd on August 21, 2013, 02:50:21 AM



Title: WTB: FPGA dev board/miner
Post by: mb300sd on August 21, 2013, 02:50:21 AM
Looking for a development board to learn FPGA programming on. Must give access to most pins of the FPGA and have a JTAG interface. I remember some people were mining on acceptable boards a while ago, but don't remember what they were called.

If you have one, make me an offer.


Title: Re: WTB: FPGA dev board/miner
Post by: Bitweasil on August 21, 2013, 05:07:53 AM
I assume this means you don't want one that requires the full license to code for?

The bulk of the FPGA miners were Spartan 6 LX150 chips, which require the full ISE license at around $3k to write unrestricted bitstreams for.

Your best bet is probably one of the intro FPGA kits with a bunch of LEDs/switches/etc, and most of them have some RAM onboard as well.