I am pretty sure that just cloning the firmware and buying your own FGPA won't work.
Either way, FGPA aren't cheap either.
Agreed. My father is a hardware engineer..... He had the same to say about pricing... it's only economical if you buy 1000+ QTY of them at a time or more....
I am doing research now on the pheasability of creating an FPGA device and making a utility to translate the algo libraries from miner apps like ccminer to something the FPGA could use; this would make pretty much a universal miner as long as theres no massive memory requirements like some algos have....
MY first step is going to be making block diagrams and flowcharts for him to give me an idea of what FPGA and dev board I need to look into buying.....
But, I am still waiting for those XXX photos of the inside of a baikal cube.....
Any chance you decided on which FPGA board to purchase?
