avalon 6 controller

[aarons6]

i cant find this listed anywhere, and i havent had one so i dont know.

i do know that they use an external controller, a rpi.

my question is if i compile cgminer, will they run off a laptop usb?

[MarkAz]

i cant find this listed anywhere, and i havent had one so i dont know.

i do know that they use an external controller, a rpi.

my question is if i compile cgminer, will they run off a laptop usb?

You need the little dongle also to convert from I2C (or SPI, I can't remember which they use), to Serial - but a PC can certainly communicate with them then.  Avalon supplies tools to diagnose the boards that run on the PC, and I used them to check cores before.

Now, whether or not they latest driver code is part of the CGMiner tree, I don't know - but if you don't have an RPi, the easiest thing to do is probably just to compile it and see, if I remember correctly the dongle just enumerates like a normal USB serial port on Windows, so it's probably the same on Linux.

Hope that helps...

[aarons6]

i cant find this listed anywhere, and i havent had one so i dont know.

i do know that they use an external controller, a rpi.

my question is if i compile cgminer, will they run off a laptop usb?

You need the little dongle also to convert from I2C (or SPI, I can't remember which they use), to Serial - but a PC can certainly communicate with them then.  Avalon supplies tools to diagnose the boards that run on the PC, and I used them to check cores before.

Now, whether or not they latest driver code is part of the CGMiner tree, I don't know - but if you don't have an RPi, the easiest thing to do is probably just to compile it and see, if I remember correctly the dongle just enumerates like a normal USB serial port on Windows, so it's probably the same on Linux.

Hope that helps...

yes that helps a lot. thanks.

[philipma1957]

i cant find this listed anywhere, and i havent had one so i dont know.

i do know that they use an external controller, a rpi.

my question is if i compile cgminer, will they run off a laptop usb?

You need the little dongle also to convert from I2C (or SPI, I can't remember which they use), to Serial - but a PC can certainly communicate with them then.  Avalon supplies tools to diagnose the boards that run on the PC, and I used them to check cores before.

Now, whether or not they latest driver code is part of the CGMiner tree, I don't know - but if you don't have an RPi, the easiest thing to do is probably just to compile it and see, if I remember correctly the dongle just enumerates like a normal USB serial port on Windows, so it's probably the same on Linux.

Hope that helps...

yes that helps a lot. thanks.

the kit

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1318003.msg13598167#msg13598167


you need the kit

as the software on the rasp pi interacts  with a daughter board in the miner

[toptek]

tip if you want to use any pi type and don't care if it has there version of openwrt, would rather use minera etc or your own made up GUI or cgminer on a laptop with windows like you want to all you need is the dongle that converts from I2C/ SPI, to Serial and cgminer with the A6 driver turned on. and you may need the one they made for the A6 not the A 4.1 or buy one then program it, which might not work either if you don't know  which dongle or chip they use i found out the hard way.  


 it's very cheap on line to buy, the shipping might even cost more then the A6 dongle, any cable/s that fits it, should work.

here is there cgminer fork for the A6 https://github.com/Canaan-Creative/cgminer

This might tell you a lot to: https://github.com/Canaan-Creative