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Hi Avalon users and hackers

Miner Manager(MM) is a bitcoin task generator firmware that fit FPGA and faster mining machine.

For users:
released firmware
   avalon2(Version:201401-1f7d08b0,http://downloads.canaan-creative.com/software/avalon2/2014-04-11/mm/ (http://downloads.canaan-creative.com/software/avalon2/2014-04-11/mm/))
   avalon3(Version:331404-b191ace0,http://downloads.canaan-creative.com/software/avalon3/2014-04-17/mm/ (http://downloads.canaan-creative.com/software/avalon3/2014-04-17/mm/))
 
For hackers:
code repo
   avalon2(https://github.com/BitSyncom/mm/tree/master)
   avalon3(https://github.com/BitSyncom/mm/tree/avalon3)
how to build
   https://github.com/BitSyncom/mm#how-to-build
Documents/Downloads
   https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Avalon2

If you have any problem on Avalon, please read this page first: https://github.com/BitSyncom/mm, if it not fix your issue. please goto #avalon @freenode.net ask some help.

Please report bug here:
  https://github.com/BitSyncom/mm/issues

If you like donate some BTC (mined by your Avalon Smiley) to me, here is my address:
  1NQ8dFh1TPHQAFE8PFHbuj45FLibYr5Afw


All The Best & Happy Mining
Mikeqin

Hi,
I'm not terribly familiar with programming FPGAs - and I'm sure I'm not alone on that. Are there some simple instructions describing equipment required, and how to program?

Do you foresee any problem programming the FPGA on 3rd party 'clone' avalon miners (e.g. lketc's avalon3 miner)? They seem to have much different electronics layout and it is quite possible that they tweak the source to match their design (it's impossible to tell for sure, as they do not provide source code).

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Avalon1#Update_FPGA_controller_firmware
There are two methods: using free software xc3sprog + Jtag or using xilinx tools.


lketc's avalon3 miner do use MM from Avalon (direct download from http://downloads.canaan-creative.com). they didn't change anything.

There is another project using MM firmware. named: HashRatio (Machine: 768G). they using asicminer's ASIC. there is a Chinese post talking about that:
  http://www.cybtc.com/article-986-1.html

Xiangfu

Hi, All:

New Miner Manager firmware released(MM version: 331406-fe02da80)
Please update your firmware if you have an Avalon3 machine.

Downloads:(also include the newest OpenWrt firmware r40859)
    http://downloads.canaan-creative.com/

ChangeLog:
    Add code for turn on red LED
    When all those two temperature sensors bigger then 90C. power off ASIC.
    Clean old local works when get detect message
    Add one quick poweroff self test, indicator by red LED.

Communicate:
    http://lists.canaan-creative.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo
    IRC: #avalon @freenode.net

Documents:
    https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Avalon

Mikeqin

Hi, All:

Avalon3:New Miner Manager firmware released(MM version: 331406-35fef704)
Please update your firmware if you have an Avalon3 machine.

Downloads:
    http://downloads.canaan-creative.com/

ChangeLog:
    Turn on the red led when the module id was match.

Communicate:
    http://lists.canaan-creative.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo
    IRC: #avalon @freenode.net

Documents:
    https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Avalon

If you like donate some BTC (mined by your Avalon Smiley) to me, here is my address:
  1NQ8dFh1TPHQAFE8PFHbuj45FLibYr5Afw

All The Best & Happy Mining
Mikeqin

I'm trying to get my avalon3 to work.. will this help?
I have the latest firmware installed onto r'pi how do I access the miner manager?
Thank you

You can get the mm test script(avalon-mm-modular-test.py) from  https://github.com/BitSyncom/avalon-extras/tree/master/scripts.
If you want to deep in research, you can read the mm code(https://github.com/BitSyncom/mm) and cgminer(https://github.com/BitSyncom/cgminer/tree/master).