Bitcoin Core calculator, can it be home brewed?

Quote from: 2112 on September 17, 2015, 02:27:15 PM

I don't know what your psychological disability is, so I can't help you.

"psychological disability" eh? if you think that's all it is when:

Quote from: 2112 on September 17, 2015, 06:09:56 AM

SHA-256 is essentially a 16-position shift register that is 32-bit wide. The fancy hashing feedback is mostly 32-bit wide adders and some bit twiddling that in hardware can be implemented mostly with wires and very few gates.

..Explains bugger all, then go on to say:

Quote from: 2112 on September 17, 2015, 02:27:15 PM

The information required to solve all the technical problems to implement hardware SHA-256 miner is all available here on this board. Multiple people did their own implementation using the sensible learning technology of the XXI century: FPGA development kit. It takes between a week or a month to do it from scratch, depending on the student's aptitude. Simple FPGA development kits cost less than $100, many schools can get them for free.

you really are not helping with me trying to understand how things work.

Quote from: 2112 on September 17, 2015, 02:27:15 PM

For the problem you posed I think you misunderstood the description of Ki constants in the FIPS-180. FIPS describes how to derive them to show that those are "nothing-up-my-sleeve" numbers. Any hardware implementation will simply store those constants in ROM or other storage device.

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4.2.2 SHA-224 and SHA-256 Constants

SHA-224 and SHA-256 use the same sequence of sixty-four constant 32-bit words K₀^{256},K₁^{256},...,K₆₄^{256}. These words represent the first thirty-two bits of the fractional parts of the cube roots of the first sixty-four prime numbers. In hex, these constant words are (from left to right)

so I said 8 prime numbers that is used to do 1st round to start the calculation going, by the NSA standard, stated in the spreadsheet. over the 64 prime numbers used to get the hex needed for each round.

(now looking at this, i do question, these values never change yes? i could just set them into a rom?)

if im so utterly wrong, tell me how and show me where im going wrong..

Quote from: 2112 on September 17, 2015, 08:05:30 PM

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For the sane educational project probably the best kit would be something like http://zedboard.org/ which is Xilinx Zynq (ARM Cortex A9 & ~~Kintex 7~~Artix 7^? FPGA on the same chip with all the required interfaces).

For still sane but really budget-stressed project the $10 Cypress PSoC http://www.cypress.com/CY8CKIT-059 would be another sensible learning choice. It is ARM Cortex M3 with 24 CPLD-like Universal Digital Blocks. And the whole development toolchain for it is free from Cypress Semiconductor without the need to be affiliated with an educational institution.

In my opinion soldering 74-series chips by hand is a skill about as useful as knowledge of the railroad engineer on how to operate a steam locomotive. We have 21st century now. Search for "Xilinx ISE schematic capture" and get on with the program...

http://uhaweb.hartford.edu/kmhill/suppnotes/iseschem/index.htm
http://www.digilentinc.com/Data/Documents/Tutorials/Xilinx%20ISE%20WebPACK%20Schematic%20Capture%20Tutorial.pdf

Edit: grammar fixes

now you're talking about getting data into the calculator? fare enough, could cheat and use a fpga/micro to push data to the mess I'm planing to make.