IMO it simplifies clusters. And we know ngzhang has been considering this point quite a lot with his FPGA boards.
Also, if the system is only one board, it simplifies the communications between the ASIC and the CPU
Not to mention the fact that one 60GH board on a computer is one thing, 10x60GH board one one single computer may be a problem to allocate work from the pool at a decent rate. With this architecture, the problem is up to the pool, not the computer.

But it's just my opinion.

Will that be open-source ?
Will we be able to log on the unit to mess everything up ?

Awesome !

Thank you ngzhang. That means your developing fpga nightmare is over, right?

FPGA waste a lot of internal gates/latches/buffers/whatever to implement a design. So ASICs can do what a FPGA does, but not the way around in most cases.
For mining, you want to use every gate available to perform massively parallel computations. So the design of the ASIC has to be made specially for that ASIC and will not just be a port of what was done for the FPGA.

The other side of the (bit)coin being : designing the function for the ASIC is 10% of the work. simulation and most specifically Thermal response simulation is the hard part. You pretty well can come up with a design that behave very poorly thermically speaking once you have the final chip, and which finally runs at 1/10th of the originally designed speed.

And redoing it is a no-go, since it costs all that money again.

So, ..., big surprises are expected ...

how rude

IMO:
ASIC (if they do work one day) will not make an influx of new coins, but will increase difficulty.
Coins flow at 1block/10mn rate, and that will stay unaffected.
The halving will cut in half the coins flux tho. As a consequence, less coins flowing in => higher prices.

BTW, the difficulty is really bumpy these days, don't you think ?

Ngzhang,

And about the power dissipation problems, did you consider inserting a Peltier module between the chips and the heatsink ?

Wait.

40x64 cycles cores @ 250Mhz = 20xfull hashers @250Mhz = 5GH/s per chip

Who needs ASICs, really ...

Rofl - feeling your pain.

How do you build these nice graphs ?

Is that 7% per week ?

This must be one of these Xmas fairy tales

I am following the same path very slowly.

I have ngzhang's dev kit JTAG cable working - just follow the Xilinx instructions and under Linux you probably need this : http://rmdir.de/~michael/xilinx/

Connect the small board with a big white arrow on the xilinx JTAG cable, then connect the cable with the 7 colored wires to it.

Connect the loose wires to the Lancelot board in this order : from left: VCC/GND/TCK/TDO/TDI/TMS
that is, RED/BLACK/YELLOW/WHITE/PURPLE/GREEN   ignore the GREY wire (INIT)

Start IMPACT => you can see the two LX150;
I didn't dare downloading anything yet tho, I also wonder what is the exact bitstream currently running, my guess is https://github.com/ngzhang/Icarus/tree/master/Downloads/bitsteam/V3

<sarcasm>
It looks like a rumor spread by BFL ...
</sarcasm>

$15 for sending a piece of paper ?   

The Dame of the Lake knocked at the door today and gave me that Lancelot board dev kit !

It's amazing. It took me a few minutes to make it working under Linux (debian 6):

- recompile cgminer with --enable-icarus
- search /dev for clues => /dev/ttyUSB0
- cgminer -O zzz:xxx -D -S /dev/ttyUSB0 -o xxxpool.com:8332

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Pool management GPU management Settings Display options Quit
 GPU 0:  75.5C 2182RPM | 325.3/322.9Mh/s | A:232 R:0 HW:0 U:  4.68/m I: 4
 ICA 0:                | 379.4/376.7Mh/s | A:277 R:1 HW:0 U:  5.59/m
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Fantastic work, the board is wonderfully built, thank you Ngzhang !

Il y a une nouvelle interface graphique en tous cas, c'est plus joli

ils vont au paradis des bitcoins ?

Juste pour finir :

Il faudrait peut-être commencer par choisir un logiciel de mining. Moi j'utilise cgminer http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/
mais il y en a plein d'autres.

je le lance de mémoire sur le pool par un subtil :
./cgminer -u <mon addresse bitcoin> -o http://50btc.com:8332 --sharelog /tmp/shares.log

>Mais je penser que le logiciel Bitcoin servez a miner non?

Le client bitcoin a effectivement un miner intégré, mais il a été "disabled" parce que miner avec un CPU maintenant ce n'est plus suffisamment rentable au point de considérer ça comme une erreur et de réserver cette façon de faire aux développeurs qui veulent faire des tests

>Donc quand on mine seul soit on trouve les 50btc soi rien ?
oui

>comment je fait pour que le pool envoi a mon logiciel bitcoin les information sur les calcule
Ca dépend du pool, moi j'utilise 50btc.com, et ils demandent l'adresse bitcoin comme userid. Les bitcoins sont reversés à cette adresse. On ne peut pas plus simple.

>est quelle poll me conseillez vous? il ya une differance ou pas?
Google is your friend : https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Comparison_of_mining_pools

>je trouve ou ces info?
Google + bitcointalk.org + bitcoin.org

>Worker ces le nom que jai donner a mon worker?
Je ne comprends pas la question.

>Mon pool ces "triplemining.com" Quelqun peut m'aider a completer ?
Je ne sais pas. Pas moi : je ne connais pas triplemining.com

>aussi quand mine est ce que ca ralenti le pc?
Oui. Cela dit depuis qu'on mine avec des GPU et/ou des FPGA, ca prend pas beaucoup de cpu (peut etre 10 ou 20% chez moi ? je ne sais pas trop)
Ca fait pas mal d'accès réseau aussi. Mais rien de gênant.