Although they do help make sounds they can't record or produce any sounds on their own they are just dsp cards for running complex algorithms I thought it might be plausible to use them as they have FPGA devices and I know the powercore is old now but the fact you can have almost unlimited number (viafirewire) connected to your computer could surly mean something you know some recording studios will have racks of these things and i picked one up very cheap!!! Not mention avid/protools HD cards yet either I just hate that system and don't use it but its full of maths crunching chips!!!!!!

Hello

And thanks for having me on your site I am a bit impatient when it comes to this subject so I am posting this long shot here in the hope someone will validate my musings....

I have a big question about using already available FPGA devices for bitcoin miners.

I have found a few pci and pcie boards with similar/suitable FPGA chips on them.


Two for example are

TC Electronics Powercore

http://www.tcelectronic.com/powercore-pci/

http://www.tcelectronic.com/powercore-pci/

&

SSL Duende

http://www.solid-state-logic.com/music/duende/PCIe/
http://www.solid-state-logic.com/music/duende/PCIe/


Both have Altera FPGA's and other high maths DSP's on them for running special processor intensive algorithms and I want to know if it's possible to get a miner client working on any operating system to use these boards without having to flash them with custom firmware and/or learn complicated assy languages or hdl's?