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Title: looking for people wanting an own FPGA bitstream Post by: m1lch on July 05, 2012, 11:23:11 PM Hi Guys,
I'm relatively new to bitcoin, but not to FPGAs. After developing a few things in VHDL I thought it might be fun to do our own bitstream, so who is in? I don't know if we get it better than the ztex one but since it doesn't use any enhanced stuff like DSPs or blockrams there might be some space for improvements besides, I think it is good to have a second choice, because diversity is always good. So, who is in? Title: Re: looking for people wanting an own FPGA bitstream Post by: mokahless on July 06, 2012, 12:06:53 AM My knowledge is not enough to join you but I support this.
Title: Re: looking for people wanting an own FPGA bitstream Post by: m1lch on July 06, 2012, 12:26:35 AM well, thanks, but its not that hard, we only need a very lightweight sha256 implementation. the algorithm itself isn't very hard to understand, but making it light and smooth will take some work :) and when we have that we basically need to add a little bitcoin stuff, if I understood it completely that is just a small thing checking if our hash we found is good enough (in terms of difficulty).
when we have these two things we just need to add a UART, since basically every FPGA board supports UART and then we are done with it. but if I had enough time to do everything myself I wouldn't ask here :) |