LTC FPGA discussion!

[CoinHoarder]

What? Who told about pre-orders? I remember jasinlee stating they will not accept pre-orders
What happened?

Pretty sure there still are no preorders. People are just stating they're interested..

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[jasinlee]

What? Who told about pre-orders? I remember jasinlee stating they will not accept pre-orders
What happened?

The only thing I would consider close to a preorder is an investment group. And to date there is not one setup and I am to date I am funding everything myself.

[thesnoo23]

What? Who told about pre-orders? I remember jasinlee stating they will not accept pre-orders
What happened?

The only thing I would consider close to a preorder is an investment group. And to date there is not one setup and I am to date I am funding everything myself.

Well, do let us know if you're interested in anything like that.

[hak8or]

Also interested in an FPGA board for LTC!

I am also somewhat experienced with Altium for PCB design and I have dabbled in some non BGA FPGA designs. I would be happy to help in any way that I can!

Actually, is anyone here interested in possibly making an open source FPGA litecoin miner? I know next to nothing about FPGA programming, only a tiny smidgen of VHDL/Verilog, and also next to nothing about how to implement a scrypt based miner in any HDL. If we use a a BGA device with a reasonable amount of pins and not a very small pin pitch, then we can even use OSH park for 4 layer PCB's!

[jasinlee]

Also interested in an FPGA board for LTC!

I am also somewhat experienced with Altium for PCB design and I have dabbled in some non BGA FPGA designs. I would be happy to help in any way that I can!

Actually, is anyone here interested in possibly making an open source FPGA litecoin miner? I know next to nothing about FPGA programming, only a tiny smidgen of VHDL/Verilog, and also next to nothing about how to implement a scrypt based miner in any HDL. If we use a a BGA device with a reasonable amount of pins and not a very small pin pitch, then we can even use OSH park for 4 layer PCB's!

When we finish the production units we will be publishing full documentation for scrypt/salsa fpga development and hardware implementation.

As for updates, we are making some revisions to the layout this week my dev told me today.

[hak8or]

When we finish the production units we will be publishing full documentation for scrypt/salsa fpga development and hardware implementation.

As for updates, we are making some revisions to the layout this week my dev told me today.

That is absolutely fantastic news! When you are referring to documentation, do you mean you will release the source, including both the software implementation and the hardware implementation including both the schematic and gerber files, all under a GPL or MIT license, or am I possibly misunderstanding something? Regardless, best of luck with this project!

Initially, is this being payed for out of your own pocket? If so, that is quite possibly a very risky endeavour, especially if you are paying someone else to do the design! I am sure that the community is extremely thankful for you taking on such a large initial cost.

How are you getting around the higher memory requirements for scrypt? Are you soldering DRAM onto the PCB, or will you be using DIMM's, allowing customers to add more memory if they wish?

Xilinx or Altera?

[jasinlee]

When we finish the production units we will be publishing full documentation for scrypt/salsa fpga development and hardware implementation.

As for updates, we are making some revisions to the layout this week my dev told me today.

That is absolutely fantastic news! When you are referring to documentation, do you mean you will release the source, including both the software implementation and the hardware implementation including both the schematic and gerber files, all under a GPL or MIT license, or am I possibly misunderstanding something? Regardless, best of luck with this project!

Initially, is this being payed for out of your own pocket? If so, that is quite possibly a very risky endeavour, especially if you are paying someone else to do the design! I am sure that the community is extremely thankful for you taking on such a large initial cost.

How are you getting around the higher memory requirements for scrypt? Are you soldering DRAM onto the PCB, or will you be using DIMM's, allowing customers to add more memory if they wish?

Xilinx or Altera?

I cant disclose the details yet, but when we do get production units in hand we will publish whatever we can without endangering our business plans. However, our goal is to grow ltc as a whole so anything we do will be to further that goal.

[thesnoo23]

Well, I hope you have great success.

[Robre]

Any new developments?

[jasinlee]

Since yesterday ?

[Robre]

Sure 

[peacefulmind]

Since yesterday ?

 

I think you will find the community willing to order some as soon as you have that info available - may eventually want 20, but would order 4 paid upfront on first day to support further LTC development.

[jasinlee]

I am looking into possibly setting up a security like mentioned before similar to how asicminer set theirs up. I have been in contact with someone already about possibly doing the investment group method. So we will see how it pans out and if this is the direction that is best for everyone.

I do want to point out, that no matter what happens, I think it best that these by default be setup for solo mining to avoid a large network majority forming like it has on bitcoin.

[Daegalus]

Thats a good idea. I will be sure to buy some. I am currently single GPU mining, so any amount will be beneficial, and external and not frying my GPU.

I am interested in pre-orders, first day buys, or even securities. I will invest into a security.

[jasinlee]

Well it would simply make sure that there is no mistake as to whether someone is an investor or placing a preorder.

[Mastergerund]

I am interested in news on any developments, too.

[Robre]

Well it would simply make sure that there is no mistake as to whether someone is an investor or placing a preorder.

I would be interested in whatever your an is at this point.

[tacotime]

I do want to point out, that no matter what happens, I think it best that these by default be setup for solo mining to avoid a large network majority forming like it has on bitcoin.

If you sell me one I'll gladly do so!  I can also give you investment money too, but I need some specs before doing so (cost to produce, scaling, efficiency, etc).

[thesnoo23]

I do want to point out, that no matter what happens, I think it best that these by default be setup for solo mining to avoid a large network majority forming like it has on bitcoin.

If you sell me one I'll gladly do so!  I can also give you investment money too, but I need some specs before doing so (cost to produce, scaling, efficiency, etc).

No. Bad Taco. You go work on MC2, and I will be an early adopter and become rich and live in bermuda or something. THEN you worry about FPGA

[shibaji]

Well it would simply make sure that there is no mistake as to whether someone is an investor or placing a preorder.

I would be interested in whatever your an is at this point.

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  Good one.